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America’s Next Super Jet: NGAD Explained
The U.S. Air Force's NGAD program is poised to revolutionize aerial combat with a sixth-generation fighter jet designed to outperform the F-22 Raptor. With unmatched stealth, speed, and range, NGAD ...
Russia’s Mikoyan PAK DP, unofficially dubbed the MiG-41, is an ambitious sixth-generation interceptor program envisioned to replace the aging MiG-31 Foxhound. -On paper, it’s a technological marvel, ...
The U.S. industrial base handle building both the Air Force's F-47 and the Navy's F/A-XX. It is better to keep the programs ...
Since stealth is a priority, sixth-gen fighter jets are likely to have a flying wing design and lack tail fins, which ...
The Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, meant to create the world’s first sixth-generation fighter, is heading back to the drawing board.
A rendering of a Next Generation Air Dominance aircraft concept by Boeing. (Image: Boeing) The “old” NGAD. In September 2020, Dr. Will Roper, the then Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for ...
A notional NGAD design which was released by Boeing during the development. (Image credit: Boeing) As for the second X-plane, the Lockheed Martin demonstrator which flew in 2022, this is the first ...
NGAD will bring "an entirely different level of low observability," the official said. It will also have a much longer range than the F-35 or other current fighter jets, ...