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Scout Warrior: Air Force Starts Experiments for 6th Gen Fighter
The Air Force has begun experimenting and conceptual planning for a 6th generation fighter aircraft to emerge in coming years as a technological step beyond the F-35, service leaders said.
"We have started experimentation, developmental planning and technology investment," Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch, Military Deputy, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Acquisition, told Scout Warrior in an interview earlier this year.
The new aircraft, engineered to succeed the 5th-generation F-35 Joint StrikeFighter and explode onto the scene by the mid 2030s, is now in the earliest stages of conceptual development with the Air Force and Navy. The two services are now working together on early conceptual discussions about the types of technologies and capabilities the aircraft will contain. While the Air Force has not yet identified a platform for the new aircraft.
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WNU Editor: It is amazing how long it now takes to plan, conceptualize, experiment, develop, and manufacture these planes.
1 comment:
At what point can we please stop all this? Trillions spent every year on weapons and weapon systems world wide. Sure, that's also a lot of jobs, and a lot of innovation but just imagine we'd put that money to the next game of thrones series and just bing watch it with putin and xi and just stop all that warmongering for a few days :) and if you don't like Got, how about we put the money to good use and finance a year long beach volleyball series with supermodels as players? :)
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