The US Air Force is moving ahead with plans to develop a sixth-generation fighter jet engine based on technological improvements achieved through an ongoing effort to produce a power plant for a future long-range bomber. In a request for information released 19 August, the air force said it...
just trying to sell fighter jets more expensive. Just like the UK is developing the so-called sixth generation 'Tempest', in fact, the UK's own fifth generation aircraft has not yet achieved maiden flight.
The U.S. Air Force’s disclosure that it has secretly built and flown a prototype fighter jet could signal a shift in how the military buys weapons and who builds them. Will Roper, the head of Air Force acquisition, revealed the existence of the new jet, which he said was part of the...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force repelled a Chinese invasion of Taiwan during a massive war game last fall by relying on drones acting as a sensing grid, an advanced sixth-generation fighter jet able to penetrate the most contested environments, cargo planes dropping pallets of guided munitions...
A sixth-generation fighter aircraft will form the centrepiece of the network-connected NGAD family of systems. It will be complemented by multiple manned aircraft, loyal wingman-style unmanned aerial vehicles, and advanced command, control and communication systems. ...
fighter jet known as the "MR-F" or "MR-X" by the US Air Force, nor has there been a request to evaluate Boeing's T-7 advanced trainer aircraft as a replacement for the F-16. Brigadier General Dale White stated that the "4+1" future fighter force structure proposed by the US Air...
DAYTON, Ohio — The futuristicNext Generation Air Dominance fighter platformnow in the works is likely to be one of the most complex, highest-stakes weapon acquisitions in the U.S. Air Force’s history. The sixth-generation fighter jet is expected to include new technologies ranging f...
US Senate Defeats Bid to Stop F-16 Fighter Jet Sale to Turkey More Reuters FILE PHOTO: An F-16 combat jet aircraft of the Turkish airforce takes off at the Air Defender Exercise 2023 at the military airport of Jagel, northern Germany, June 9, 2023. Axel Heim...
READ MORE: Air Force plans to arm sixth-generation fighters with laser weapons HELLADS is under development by General Atomics in conjunction with DARPA, and is the most likely contender to be the Navy’s weapon of the future. That system is now entering the ground testing phase of development...
[00:00.04]Two American Air Force fighter airplanes [00:03.60]recently flew into the sky above California. [00:06.92]The military planes were taking part in training, [00:12.44]practicing a wartime maneuver called a dogfigh...