Modernization of the F-22A Avionics

Headquarters USAF announced the Raptors modernized supply of avionics software version 3.1, which allows you to attack land objectives.


F-22 Raptor, assigned to the 525th Fighter Squadron at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska. This fighter is one of 87 recently produced an extended operating system, where you can apply a solution used in the F-35 fighter.

With the cessation of production of the F-22A, the process of modernization for the stealth fighter now. They obtained the ability to operational activities with the software level of 3.0, implemented since the beginning of the first decade of the XXI century.

In 2009, work began on version 3.1. This includes the ability to generate high-resolution image surface, the on-board radar station with antenna scanning phase, the additional capabilities of electronic warfare and the use of wider range of weapons. Instead of two 450-kilogram bombs, JDAM weapons in the chamber can be transferred to eight 110-kilogram bombs, GBU-39 SDB, equipped with the INS / GPS and intended to destroy the purpose desktop (they will not even be able to attack the GBU-40 variant, with a heat seeker head auto-sensing purposes, to destroy moving targets). Objectives may be implemented independently by remote control.

The modernization program includes further modifications Raptors, version 3.2 of varieties A, B and C and 3.3, which ensure the use of the latest models of primary missiles air-air , or the AIM 9X Sidewinder and AIM-120D AMRAAM, bombs, additional models and the introduction of a standard communication link 16, which will enable the exchange of information between Raptorami, and the latest USAF aircraft. Completion of this process is planned for the years 2020-2025 and in full will only cover part of operational aircraft, and so 85 of 149 copies remaining, older, due to poor processing power on-board computers will not be adapted to the latest data transmission system. Modernization completely bypass the aircraft used for training.