Does the new U.S. F-22 Raptor joint strike fighter have VSTOL or VTOL or any vertical takeoff capability?

Answer 1

You seem to have got the names and numbers mixed up. The F/A-22 Raptor doesnt have any plans for a non-conventional take off aircraft.

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has a VTOL version planned.

Answer 2

Those you mentioned are actually two different planes. The F22 is the Air Force's air superiority fighter interceptor, while the Joint Strike Fighter is another plane being developed for the Air Force, The Marines and the Navy. The Marine version only will have VTOL and VSTOL. It achieves this with the use of a separate lift fan along with downward thrust of the main engine to take off vertically. Unlike the Harrier it can take off vertically, go supersonic, and then land vertically again. The Harrier was subsonic.

Answer 3

F-22 Raptor is NOT the JSF. JSF is F-35.

F-22 has thrust vectoring, which may help it perform close to a STOL, but it's NOT a true STOL aircraft.

F-35 is expected to have a Marine Corp version with a vertical lift fan that will make it VTOL, but also conventional versions. To make it more confusing, F-35 is now formally named Lightning II, which was one of the names given by Lockheed to the YF-22. :P

Answer 4

No, the Raptor does not. What it does have is vectored thrust that allows it to move at sharp angles while flying.
I think you are thinking of the new joint strike fighter and I may have the number wrong but I think it is the F35 of which some variants will have VTOL capabilities via a 90degree vectored nozzle and an engine powered "fan" that blows downward from behind the cockpit.

Answer 5

A. the raptor is not the JSF
B. the JSF is the F-35, comes in three different models. one for each of the branches of the military that uses it and the marines model does have VTOL.

Answer 6

try the JSF