F-22 with external missile pylons

[FredT]

Given that the NGAD may be dead at this time and Zaphod58's recent thread about the Raptor getting a distributed IRST capability I though I would post up the Edwards Raptor I caught last August near Boron, California with the seldom seen external a2a missile pylons attached. Make you wonder what a beast mode raptor will look like and they may look to expand its capabilities as a stop gap https://theaviationist.com/2024/08/13/f-...-missiles/