NGAD: The Air Force’s Stealth 6th Generation Fighter Is No Longer A Dream
ByPeter SuciuPublished17 hours ago
NGAD: The Next Generation Air Dominance Has Reached the Development Phase – The United States Air Force’s sixth-generation fighter has continued to take shape, and it was reported this week that the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program has entered the critical engineering, manufacturing, and development (EMD) phase. The highly classified fighter program began early experimental prototyping in 2015 and has been making steady progress.
“We have now started an [engineering, manufacturing and development] program to do the development aircraft that we’ll take into production,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said during an event at the Heritage Foundation. “We think we’ll have the capability by the end of the decade.”
However, due to the classified nature of the design efforts, the Air Force’s top civilian official could provide few details about the manned sixth-generation fighter, which is expected to be the centerpiece of the NGAD family of systems. What has been publicly acknowledged about the aircraft is that it will be equipped with a variety of new weapons and sensors; and that it will be supported by a variety of drones – so-called “Loyal Wingmen.”
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