F-35 Stealth Fighter
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of stealth multirole fighters that first entered service with the United States in 2015. The aircraft has been ordered by program partner nations, including the United Kingdom, Italy, Norway, and Australia, and also through the Department of Defense's Foreign Military Sales program, including Japan, South Korea, and Israel.
F-22 Raptor
A pilot flying an F-22 in Alaska reportedly became disoriented, and the aircraft likely would have crashed were it not for the intervention of a software system on the fighter jet. The F-22 in question had departed Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson in Anchorage, and was operating in “Instrument Meteorological Conditions” or IMC, which is when weather and visibility require the pilot to fly using their instruments. The incident, according to a short summary of the event provided to Popular Science by the Air Force Safety Center, occurred due to the pilot’s “spatial disorientation.”
The pilot of the stealth fighter jet “was focused on their situation display and over-banked the aircraft to 135 degrees angle of bank and began to accelerate rapidly as the nose continued to fall,” the Air Force Safety Center reported.
The previously unreported F-22 event highlights the role of the software, called the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System, or Auto GCAS, and also represents the only completely confirmed save of a stealth fighter jet with this software, meaning that the pilot likely owes their life to the system.
F-15 fighter
Previous reports and intelligence news on the acquisition of new jets for the Kenya airforce were based on the military assessment of which aircraft suited them best. Various types of air defense air crafts ‘(fighter jets) have been reviewed at air force facilities including Embakasi and Laikipia airbase to verify various aspects of the operational context and the F-15 has been the most compatible with current KDF control and support resources.
The Boeing F-15 Eagle remains the world’s best interceptor fighter and primary air-superiority fighter. It is a large, light twin-engined aircraft with high, shoulder-mounted fixed-geometry swept wings and twin tails and can carry up to 16,000 pounds of bombs, fuel tanks, and missiles. The F-15 fits KDF's transition from the F-5 platform based on a number of factors such as radar control and support systems besides weather and air defense monitoring systems.
The F-15 fighter jet is an all-weather night and day fighter bomber with a track record of zero defeat and superior avionics in comparison with any other fighter aircraft such as the Russian Sukhoi. It uses the Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems AN/ALQ-131 electronic countermeasures pod also used by the F-5 fighter.
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