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F-35 and F-22 combine capabilities in operational integration training mission
F-22 Raptors from the 94th Fighter Squadron, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, and F-35A Lightning IIs from the 58th Fighter Squadron, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, fly in formation after completing an integration training mission over the Eglin Training Range, Florida, Nov. 5, 2014. The purpose of the training was to improve integrated employment of fifth-generation assets and tactics. The F-35s and F-22s flew offensive counter air, defensive counter air and interdiction missions, maximizing effects by employing fifth-generation capabilities together. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Shane A. Cuomo)
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F-35 and F-22 combine capabilities in operational integration training mission

Posted 11/17/2014   Updated 11/17/2014 



by Staff Sgt. Marleah Robertson
33rd Fighter Wing


11/17/2014 - EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- The U.S. Air Force deployed
four F-22 Raptors from Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, to Eglin Air Force
Base, earlier this month for the unit's first operational integration training
mission with the F-35A Lightning II assigned to the 33rd Fighter Wing here.

The purpose of the training was to improve integrated employment of fifth-

generation assets and tactics. The training allowed both units to gain
operational familiarization and capture lessons learned to improve future
exercises.

"When the F-22 and F-35 come together, it brings out the strength of both

airplanes," said Lt. Col. Matt Renbarger, F-35 pilot and 58th Fighter Squadron
commander. "The F-22 was built to be an air-to-air superiority fighter and the
F-35 was built to be a strike fighter. These airplanes complement
each other and we're trying to learn how to take that from a design perspective
into a tactical arena and be the most effective combat team we can be working
with the F-22s."

The F-35s and F-22s flew offensive counter air, defensive counter air and i

nterdiction missions together, exploring ways to maximize their fifth-generation
capabilities.

"The missions started with basic air-to-air and surface attacks," said Maj.

Steven Frodsham, F-22 pilot and 149th Fighter Squadron, Virginia Air National
Guard, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. "As the training progressed, the
missions developed into more advanced escort and defensive
counter air fifth-generation integration missions."

The Air Force recently employed fifth-generation combat airpower for the first

time against the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant during the
most recent joint coalition campaign. The ground strike was the F-22 Raptor's
combat debut, demonstrating the decisive impact fifth-generation capabilities
bring to real-world scenarios.

Like the F-35, the F-22 brings an unrivaled stealth capability to the fight.

However, as seen in the recent employment in Syria, it's the aircraft's ability to
provide heightened situational awareness to other aircraft through the platform's
integrated avionics and fused sensors - often referred to as "fusion" - that makes
all the aircraft in the strike package more lethal and survivable, maximizing the
full capabilities of airpower.

"Fusion and stealth - those are the two things that fifth-generation aircraft bring

to the fight," said Renbarger. "It's all of those sensors coming in to give me that
fused battle picture that I have displayed in my cockpit along with fifth-
generation stealth that enables me to go undetected into the battlefield with that
high situational awareness to do what I need to do for the fight."

The F-22 sparked the Air Force's fourth-to-fifth generation integration efforts.

Now that the F-35 program is moving closer to its initial operational capability,
it too can begin to integrate with the fourth-generation systems as well as its
fifth-generation F-22 counterpart.

"The F-22 and F-35 squadrons integrated very well," said Frodsham. "The

lessons learned and tactics developed from this training opportunity will help
to form the foundation for future growth in  our combined fifth-generation fighter
tactics."

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