Stealth Sniper: The F-22 Raptor’s New Mission?

Air superiority is what Lockheed Martin and the Air Force designed the F-22 to do. But in practice over the Middle East, this mission normally means acting as a scout. Lt. Col. “Shell” elaborated to the magazine that the Raptors are in the air helping “deconflict” the airspace, and helping keep Russian and Syr!an planes away from U.S. troops and the Syr!an Democratic Forces, an alliance of militias spearheaded by the majority-Kurdish People’s Protection Units.

The F-22 can do it because of its complex suite of active and passive sensors, which combined with instruments, allow the aircraft to “fuse” data together and present it to the pilot on a display screen.