The general thinking among the human race is that we get smarter, over time. But this chart, from a new Government Accountability Office report into the Air Force’s F-22 program, suggests otherwise.

It is the absolute apex of air-to-air combat. It rules the skies like a bird of prey, from which it takes its name. It's one of the stealthiest fighter jets in the world. The Lockheed Martin F-22 ...

Lockheed Martin's fifth-generation F-22 Raptor entered development in the 1980s as a replacement platform for the U.S. Air Force's F-15 and F-16 planes but with the added benefit of stealth. While the ...

An F-22 Demonstration Team Raptor flies over Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., March 3, 2023. Update: As of this morning there have been other interpretations of Andrew Hunter’s comments. The F-22 ...

In terms of speed, the F-22 also has the F-35 beat. While the Raptor can fly at speeds reaching Mach-2.2 (2.2 times the speed of sound) powered by its Pratt & Whitney F119 engines, the F-35 can ...

Nearly 30 years since its first test flight in 1997, the Lockheed Martin-Boeing F-22 Raptor still looks like it came from the future. Sporting both a curved body and hard-edged angles as well as that ...

-The industrial base, including the assembly line and specialized subcontractors, no longer exists, and a 2017 Air Force report estimated a restart would cost a staggering $50 billion. -Furthermore, ...

In addition to air scares, F-22 ground crews suffer "hypoxia-like symptoms." May 9, 2012 — -- As the Air Force searches desperately for the source of a mysterious and potentially deadly oxygen ...

A General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger drone prepares for taxi at El Mirage Airfield, Calif. June 24, 2021. (Staff Sgt. Tabatha Arellano/Air Force) The pilot of a Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor stealth fighter ...