Notes on F-22

David Axe has an interesting post on F-22 over at Ares. We posted the picture at right a few days ago showing the arrival of the F-22 at Elmendorf, Alaska, where some 40 Raptors will ultimately be deployed. The aircraft will be split between two squadrons–the 90th and the 525th Fighter Squadrons–and the Air Force Reserve will also fly the planes as part of the 302nd Fighter Squadron. Axe explains,

The 302nd is an associate unit. In other words, it has no airplanes of its own, just pilots and maintainers. During a crisis, the 302nd’s people would reinforce the regular squadrons, as I explained a few months back while in Japan visiting the deployed 27th Fighter Squadron, the first Raptor unit, and its associate 192nd Wing from the Virginia Air Guard…