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April 01, 2023

Fisher Flying Products Inks Deal for F-22-Alike LSAs

Lightweight Kit Selected for Next-Gen COIN Platform in Surprise Ukraine Bid

Fisher Flying Products' nifty little bird has a new customer, after a seriously expedited Foreign Military Sales deal secured their SF-1 Archon as the newest offering to militaries abroad. The SF-1 is a lookalike to many Gen-5 fighters, sporting the same angled, low-observable design and pointed fuselage as the F-35 and F-22. While the resemblance is there, the usual Archon lacks nearly everything its wall-poster heroes do, from cutting-edge avionics and weapon systems to jet engines and pressurization.

F-22 Block 50 Upgrades Focus on High-Altitude, Low-Speed Balloon Combat

After capping off its first air-to-air successes with the F-22 Raptor, the US Air Force is doubling down on a new niche for the aircraft as the premier anti-lighter-than-air-aircraft asset. The new mission focus will be a change for the F-22 program, taking a high-speed, stealthy fighter and reforming it into a high-altitude, low-speed missile platform. Air Force secretary Frank Kendall said that the change was the perfect fit for the F-22, being the highest-performance asset in USAF inventory.