Sixth generation fighters

[funkervogt]

This is a great video about ongoing projects across the world. Note that Japan and the Europeans are building fighters that can evade future Chinese air defense systems. In this area of technology, China has already surpassed Russia, and it's expected that Russia will start buying them from China.



America's Global War on Terror also cost it dearly in the sixth generation fighter race and in many other areas of military aerospace. There wasn't enough money to pay for everything, and now we're trying to make up for lost time.

[wjfox]

Boeing wins contract for NGAD fighter jet, dubbed F-47

Mar 21, 2025, 04:44 PM

The Pentagon has awarded the long-awaited contract for the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance future fighter jet, known as NGAD, to Boeing, President Donald Trump announced Friday.

The sixth-generation fighter, which will replace the F-22 Raptor, will be designated the F-47, Trump said. It will have “state-of-the-art stealth technologies [making it] virtually unseeable,” and will fly alongside multiple autonomous drone wingmen, known as collaborative combat aircraft.

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2025/03 ... bbed-f-47/

[weatheriscool]

US to deploy world's first sixth-gen fighter by end of decade
By David Szondy
March 23, 2025

The US Air Force has announced that it will go ahead with the production of the F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter. Expected to enter service by the end of the decade, it will replace the F-22 Raptor as America's air supremacy fighter.

Friday's announcement by the Air Force and President Trump ends months of speculation about the fate of the F-47 project. In defense circles, there was uncertainty as to whether the fighter would be greenlit as part of the administration's goal of strengthening the US military or fall victim to its commitment to drastically cut federal spending.

https://newatlas.com/military/us-to-dep ... er-decade/