ELEMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE – The wait is over as the F-22 Raptor has finally been unveiled in Alaska - the jet takes over for the F-15. Today, on Wednesday, we got a first look at the awesome machines.

To a packed audience, Air force brass boasted about their newest toy on Wednesday, that will defend the Pacific Theater.

To clear blue skies and warm weather, six F-22 Raptors cruised in to Elmendorf Air Force Base, today, on Wednesday. They flew 3,000 miles from Langley, Virgina to make Alaska their new home. Air force brass call it the perfect location for training over air, ground and water and say the Pacific offers a vast space to develop skills.

With the threat of terrorism ever present in our world, the F-22 Raptor's cutting edge technology guarantees superiority in the skies to America for decades to come. The strength and speed of the new Raptor make it a prized commodity, capable of air to air and air to ground assaults.

Elmendorf lets the F-22 deploy to any location in the world...fast! Officials say that they're putting out the message that the F-22 is a formidable opponent, one not to be messed with. "It's a fabulous plane for here and future, it's a capability no one else has and this is gonna give us air supremacy for decades I believe," Lt. Gen. John Bradley, chief of the Air Force Reserve, said of the aircraft.

Gen. Paul Hester, Cmdr., of the Pacific Air Forces added, "the alligator in front of us is terrorism, it's important alligator to defeat, there's also alligators that emerge over 20 years that we must be prepared to meet."

Elmendorf expects to have a total of 36 of these F-22s by the summer. Officials can't wait and neither can many others.

ABC Alaska News Reporter, James Sears, spoke with one pilot of the F-22, at Elmendorf on Wednesday, who has logged 1,000-hours on the F-15. He's been in the F-22 for four years and instructs the next team on base in Florida. He says that his challenge now is to fly in Alaska's cold weather, but he's up for the job.

Reported by: James Sears