"While much of the details of the F-22 remain classified, what has been released is nothing short of incredible. Bill Sweetman fills you in on the new techniques, new materials and new machinery required to build and fly the world's most-advanced fighter." --provided by Goodreads.

Provides history on America's next generation of fighter plane, known as the F-22 Raptor.

The Live Fire Test Law mandates realistic survivability and lethality testing of covered systems or programs. A provision of the law permits the Secretary of Defense to waive tests if live fire testing would be "unreasonably expensive and impractical." Though no waiver was requested before the F-22 program entered engineering and manufacturing development, the Defense Department later asked that Congress enact legislation to permit a waiver to be granted retroactively. Rather than enact such legislation, Congress requested a study to explore the pros and cons of full-scale, full-up testing for the F-22 aircraft program. The book discusses the origin of testing requirements, evaluates the practicality, affordability, and cost-benefit of live fire tests, and examines the role of testing, modeling, and data bases in vulnerability assessment.