The US Air Force has no interest in restarting production of the Lockheed Martin F-22, partly because it's too expensive and because it wants to move quickly on a next-generation fighter. The service’s deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and requirements said as much during a congres...
This network-centric concept comes under the USAF’s wider, highly secretive Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) programme that envisions a system-of-systems approach to integrate next-generation fighter aircraft, weapons, sensors, networking, and battle management systems to maintain air superiori...
The US Air Force’s sixth generation fighter jet, part of itsNext Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) programme, has entered the next phase of development. The jet has entered the engineering, manufacturing and development (EMD) phase after completing the design, it has been announced at a discussi...
The next generation of weapons technology that replaces the Lockheed Martin F-22 and F-35 may not be a single-seat aircraft or even a fighter, but the end result should have a larger magazine, according to the retiring head of the US Air Force's Air Combat Command (ACC). Bringing to...
The accolade of being the first private contractor to refuel an Air Force fighter is significant for Omega. Indeed, Omega is one of only two private companies that operate tankers equipped with booms — the means by which most Air Force aircraft are refueled while flying. Probe-and-drogue, on...
and carried by stealthy types capable of penetrating defended airspace.A fifth-generation fighter, such as the USAF's Lockheed Martin F-35A, could theoretically slip undetected past hostile air defences, identify critical infrastructure, such as radars, command nodes or missile batteries, and destroy...
The F-35A Joint Strike Fighter is the most advanced, affordable fifth generation multi-role stealth fighter to meet Australia’s need to defeat emerging threats well into the future. The F-35A is truly next-generation due to its stealth capability, advanced sensors, data fusion and its abilit...
These two planes were meant to work together with the F-35 used to strike ground targets while at the same time maintaining it’s ability to be a pretty damn good air-to-air fighter. The F-22, however, out performs them all in air-to-air dog fight. Mark am 25. Februar 2023 um ...
Air Force reveals it secretly built and flew new fighter jet The full-scale flight demonstrator was built under the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) classified program. Air Force acquisition head Will Roper said the jet could move into production “pretty fast” and “We are ...