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A Dassault Rafale flying at Aero India 2017. The Rafale deal controversy is a political controversy in India related to the purchase of 36 Rafale multirole fighter aircraft for a price estimated at €7.87 billion (₹58,891 Crore) by the Defence Ministry of India from France's Dassault Aviation.
The Lockheed Martin FB-22 was a proposed supersonic stealth bomber aircraft for the United States Air Force, derived from the F-22 Raptor air superiority fighter. Lockheed Martin proposed its design in the early 2000s with support from certain Air Force leaders as an interim "regional bomber" to complement the aging U.S. strategic bomber fleet, whose replacement was planned to enter service ...
The Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor is an American twin-engine, all-weather, supersonic stealth fighter aircraft.As a product of the United States Air Force's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program, the aircraft was designed as an air superiority fighter, but also incorporates ground attack, electronic warfare, and signals intelligence capabilities.
India attack 16 50 on order. [31] CH-47 Chinook: United States transport CH-47F: 15 [15] Mil Mi-17: Russia utility Mi-17V-5: 222 [15] HAL Dhruv: India utility: 95 [15] HAL Light Utility Helicopter: India utility 6 on order [32] Alouette III: France/India liaison Chetak: 79 [15] license-built by HAL. A fleet of around 120 aircraft. [33] Cheetal ...
Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor (First flight: 1997) Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II (First flight: 2006) Lockheed YF-22 (First Flight: 1990, developed into F-22) Mikoyan LMFS (cancelled) Mikoyan Project 1.44 (First flight: 2000, cancelled) Mitsubishi X-2 Shinshin (First flight: 2016) Northrop YF-23 (First Flight: 1990, cancelled)
In the English-speaking world, "F" is often now used to indicate a fighter (e.g. Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II or Supermarine Spitfire F.22), though "P" used to be used in the US for pursuit (e.g. Curtiss P-40 Warhawk), a translation of the French "C" (Dewoitine D.520 C.1) for Chasseur while in Russia "I" was used for Istrebitel, or ...
As of December 2020, the only combat-ready stealth aircraft in service are the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit (1997), the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor (2005), the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II (2015), [15] [16] the Chengdu J-20 (2017), [17] and the Sukhoi Su-57 (2020), [18] with a number of other countries developing their own designs. There ...
According to Lockheed Martin in 2004, the only fifth-generation jet fighter then in operational service was their own F-22 Raptor. [2] [40] Lockheed Martin uses "fifth-generation fighter" to describe the F-22 and F-35 fighters, with the definition including "advanced stealth", "extreme performance", "information fusion" and "advanced sustainment".