The Navy Declassified Its Demands for a Next-Gen Fighter Jet
Story by Sascha Brodsky • Yesterday 11:30 AM
The U.S. Navy is asking for nearly $1.53 billion to develop its secretive next-generation fighter aircraft, known as F/A-XX.
The Department of the Navy wants the funding as part of its Fiscal Year 2024 budget proposal. The new aircraft is expected to replace the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. Details of the classified F/A-XX remain murky, but the plane is likely to act as the Navy’s “quarterback” for human-crewed and uncrewed future carrier operations.
“As we look at it right now, the Next-Gen Air Dominance is a family of systems, which has as its centerpiece the F/A-XX—which may or may not be manned—platform,” Rear Adm. Gregory Harris, who leads the chief of naval operation’s air warfare directorate, said in 2021. “It’s the fixed-wing portion of the Next-Gen Air Dominance family of systems.”
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