The Controversy

This amazing fighter jet may come with a major design flaw. There have been several reports of pilots not getting enough oxygen and passing out in mid-flight. The United States Air Force has not yet found the cause for the loss of oxygen. The Raptor was grounded for five months after several reports of pilots passing out during test flights. After the five months they started up again, yet the problem still persisted. Some pilots are even asking not to fly them due to this. One incident even took a pilots life, and the other pilots were told not to take this to the public, and threatened their jobs if they did. The pilots still took this to the public and started up a huge controversy weather or not to keep the Raptor operational.

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F-22 Raptor Description

F-22 Raptor

Dominating the skies, Overwhelming the threat.

You may recognize Lockheed Martin's F-22 Raptor as one of the fastest fighter jet known to mankind. This fighter jet is the only fighter capable of simultaneously taking on air-to-air and air-to-ground forces in a single sortie. This well known jet became the greatest due to the fact that it takes advantage of all modern day technological warfare. The raptor is used for intelligence gathering, surveillance, reconnaissance, and electronic attacks. The Raptor is already operational today at military bases all across the united states today. One Raptor costs 420 million dollars to build, But is it worth it?


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