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SHOW electronic order of battle EOB —what’s emitting and from
where—proved critical. “I love intel, but it’s only as good as the
last time [analysts] got a data update, which could have been hours or
even a day earlier,” Tolliver says. An F-22 “gets rid of the time
delay. I can plot an EOB in real time. I’m not saying we’re better
than a Rivet Joint, but I can go places that it can’t. If he’s 150 mi.
away, he’s probably not going to be able to plot a high-fidelity threat
location as quickly as I can.” The adversaries were wily and didn’t
want to lose. “We had guys running in at 500 ft. off the deck,”
Tolliver says. “We had guys f lying in at 45,000-50,000 ft. doing Mach
1.6, trying to shoot me before I know they are there. They would mass
their forces and try to win with sheer numbers. None of it worked.” A
tactic used by the F-22s was actually developed and practiced in smaller
scale at Langley before the exercise. Raptors worked in pairs, integrated
with F-15Cs or F/A-18E/Fs. “I could help target for them from behind and
above,” Tolliver says. “We really don’t have a name for what we were
doing other than integrated ops. I was able to look down and smartly
target F15s or F/A-18s to groups at ranges where they could not yet
[detect] the target.” Yet, there are a number of F-22 capabilities that
are shrouded in mystery, including electronic attack, information warfare
and cruise missile defense. “It’s no secret that one of our mods is to
put electronic attack on board and then we will play a role in combating
networks,” Tolliver says. “We’re already involved in the collection
part. When we come back from a mission, we have the abilit y to download
EOB data that’s turned into intelligence pictures. This makes us an
intelligence platform doing nontraditional ISR by bringing back emitter
data so that teams can go out and conduct information operations.” The
next step will be to pass the detailed information about surface-to-air
missile locations, capabilities and emission details called parametrics .
“If I have characterized, say an SA-10, I can send it verbally to A ACS
and they W can send it out to other platforms,” says Maj. Shawn Anger,
an F-22 instructor with the 43rd Fighter Sqdn. at Tyndall A FB, Fla.
However, “I can’t pass the parametrics characterization. Hopefully,
we’ll be able to shoot it up the radar”—a new capability for the
radar, which is being developed to send large, Turn and Burn Raptor’s
gunfighting heritage hasn’t completely disappeared MICHAEL J.
FABEY/TYNDALL AFB, FLA., and DAVID A. FULGHUM/WASHINGTON F ighting in—or
against—the F-22 is a singular event, humbling and frustrating to its
victims, and often startling to its pilots, who describe each flight as a
learning experience. The first thing anyone learns about the U.S. Air
Force’s Raptor is that it isn’t envisioned as a dogfighting aircraft,
mixing it up with other high-performance fighters. Its strengths—which
are being explored daily by test, training and operational units—include
pervasive situational awareness of what’s in the battlespace gathered by
the aircraft’s active electronically scanned array AESA radar,
electronic surveillance and infrared sensors. Moreover, information is
piped into the aircraft through data links to off-board sensors and other
intelligence sources. The range of its sensors out-distance those of
non-AESA aircraft, allowing it to strike a foe that’s still unaware of
the F-22. The Raptor’s stealth enables it to operate 150 mi. ahead of
large-sensor aircraft and well above legacy aircraft, where it can use its
acceleration and high-resolution view of the battlespace to greater
advantage. A newly emerging strength is the F-22’s “mini-AWACS”
capability that allows targets to be designated for conventional F-15s or
F-16s. However, the question periodically resurfaces about whether the
F-22 could hold its own during a within-visual-range fight with a very
maneuverable fourthgeneration fighter such as the Sukhoi Su27 and Su-30,
Eurofighter or Dassault Rafale. The answer will never be obvious to an
outsider. The Raptor’s high-angleof-attack capabilities are part of the
formula of classified tactics that are closely held. But, roughly, its
unique maneuvering and nose-pointing options—plus the high off-boresight
capabilities of the AIM-9X missile, which is to be added about 2010—give
the aircraft previously unheard-of means of quickly shooting down a foe.
Nonetheless, chasing an F-22 in a twoseat F-15D—which carried reporter
Michael J. Fabey—provided perspective about their comparative
capabilities. A recent flight started with F-15 pilot Capt. Andy Bishop
Jacob flying alongside an F-22 piloted by Maj. Shawn Rage Anger in the
air-to-air ranges above Tyndall AFB, Fla. Opponents of further Raptor
procurements argue that going by such basic f light physics as
thrust-to-weight ratios, rear ward cockpit visibility and simple Waiting
to sortie for one of the nine major air-to-air combats during Northern
Edge, 27th FS F-22s line up at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska. The Raptor
demonstrated both performance and sensor advantages over conventional
fighters. 4 AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY/JANUARY 8, 2007
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