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The F/A-22 Raptor test fleet at Edwards AFB, California, recently completed several important weapons tests. On 30 January, three missiles were launched within seconds of one another from two different aircraft. An AIM-9 was launched with the aircraft traveling at Mach 1.2, an altitude of 5,000 feet, with a 100-degree-per-second roll rate. In another part of the sky, two guided AIM-120 shots were completed by two pilots using the Raptor's intraflight datalink. The shots came while the aircraft were at Mach 1.3 at 30,000 feet looking down at the targets.
Photo By Kevin Robertson
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