You know, the United States, as the country with the most five-generation stealth fighters in the world, although the current mainstream fighters are mainly F-22, but as the first fifth-generation stealth fighter, the strength of the F-22 cannot be underestimated. It is reported that the F-22 is designed and produced by the famous Lockheed Martin and Boeing, and the cost is as high as $150 million.
Because the fighter has a special air intake and a large gap between it and the fuselage, the F-22's stealth ability will be greatly reduced, and after the final production reaches the 187th aircraft, the Pentagon decided to stop production and completely shut down all production lines.
However, for the first fifth-generation fighter under the US military, the degree of advancement is naturally undoubted, but there is a strange phenomenon that makes the outside world very puzzled, the F-22, which costs as much as 150 million US dollars, has a maximum flight speed of about Mach 2.25 and a maximum range of 2963 kilometers, at the beginning of design and production, why did it abandon the installation of anti-defection devices? Could it be that the U.S. military has great trust in its pilots and is not worried about the defection of former Soviet pilots?
To understand this, we must first know how the ground command knows the specific location of the fighter during the daily training of the F-22. The answer is that pilots need to carry angular reflectors, and the main function of this device is to expand the radar reflection area, and then the ground command can grasp the specific location of the F-22 in real time. After all, as a fifth-generation stealth fighter, if the F-22 enters a stealth state, ground-based radar cannot capture the flight trajectory of the fighter at all.
The reason for abandoning the installation of anti-defection devices in the first place is as follows:
First, as the pilot of the fifth-generation stealth fighter F-22 of the US military, it must be the existence of one in a million, whether it is piloting technology or loyalty, it is undoubtedly existing. Coupled with the fact that the US military must conduct background checks during the selection of pilots, the probability of defection of fifth-generation pilots is extremely low.
Second, the reason why the United States can firmly occupy the throne of the number one power depends on the dollar on the one hand, and on the US military on the other hand. Therefore, the treatment of American soldiers is extremely high, and the treatment of pilots of fifth-generation aircraft of the US military will definitely be higher than that of ordinary American soldiers. With extremely favorable benefits, there seems to be no reason for U.S. pilots to defect to other countries.
Third, according to the deployment area of the US F-22, it is not deployed close to the base around Russia. This move is also to avoid the situation that F-22 pilots directly defect to the two "old adversaries" of the United States during training.
Finally, during the training of the US F-22, there are usually main engines and wingmen, and if the pilot of one of the fighters is ready to defect, then the other fighter can completely launch interception or even choose to destroy it.
To sum up, there are only two cases in which the US F-22 pilot defects, on the one hand, in the early stage of becoming an F-22 pilot, the US military did not thoroughly investigate his identity, and mistakenly let spies from other countries become ace fighter pilots. On the other hand, U.S. pilots are bought, but this is extremely unlikely. It is not difficult to understand why the United States did not install anti-defection devices inside the F-22 in the first place.