The Air Force Just Won the 6th-Gen Fighter War. The Navy Lost
Key Points and Summary - The U.S. Navy's next-generation F/A-XX stealth fighter program has been effectively put "on ice," with its budget slashed as the Pentagon goes "all in" on the Air Force's competing F-47 (NGAD) program.
-Citing concerns that the defense industry can't handle two massive 6th-generation projects at once, the move creates a major crisis for the Navy.
-With no clear replacement for its aging F/A-18 Super Hornets, the decision leaves the future of America's carrier air wings, and their ability to maintain air superiority against peer competitors, in serious jeopardy.
The Navy's F/A-XX 6th-Gen Fighter Crisis?
When Boeing was awarded the contract by the US Air Force to build the F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) 6th-generation fighter this past March, it was kind of a big deal. First and foremost, it was significant for the United States of America as a whole and the USAF in particular, because, if all goes according to plan, the F-47 will be the world’s first operational 6th-generation fighter.
It’s also kind of a big step forward for Boeing, as the NGAD will be Boeing’s first truly original production-phase fighter plane since the 1932 vintage P-26 Peashooter. Though Boeing currently produces the F-15EX Eagle II and the F/A-18E/F Block III Super Hornet, both of these airframes are legacy carryovers from Boeing’s 1997 merger with McDonnell Douglas.
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