The Air Force’s next-gen fighter has moved into a critical new …
Jun 1, 2022 · WASHINGTON — The Air Force’s secretive and highly classified Next Generation Air Dominance fighter program has started its crucial engineering and manufacturing development phase, Secretary ...
How the sixth-generation fighter jet will upend air warfare - Defense News
Jul 19, 2024 · The Air Force’s effort to build a sixth-gen fighter family of systems is known as Next Generation Air Dominance, or NGAD, and experts say the platform will be asked to do a lot of things.
F-35A Lightning II > Air Force > Fact Sheet Display
The F-35A is the U.S. Air Force’s latest fifth-generation fighter. It will replace the U.S. Air Force’s aging fleet of F-16 Fighting Falcons and A-10 Thunderbolt II’s, which have been the primary fighter aircraft for more than 20 years, and bring with it an enhanced capability to survive in the advanced threat environment in which it was ...
The Air Force's secret 6th-generation 'fighter' is now officially in ...
Jun 2, 2022 · The United States Air Force is now officially developing its 6th-gen fighter. Early design for a sixth-generation fighter from Boeing, circa 2013. Boeing/Wikimedia Commons. In defense news,...
Air Force Finally Has Its First F-15EX: New F-15 Specs, Details
Mar 16, 2021 · The U.S. Air Force formally took possession of its first new F-15 Eagle fighter jet in nearly 20 years. The F-15EX will serve as a test and evaluation aircraft as the Air Force...
What We Know So Far About The U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation …
May 22, 2023 · The future 5th gen. aircraft was rumored to be a small and agile manned plane, supersonic, long-range, cyber-resilient against threats of the future interconnected world, with morphing metals,...
The F-15EX Eagle II is the Air Force's new fighter - Popular Science
Apr 22, 2021 · Earlier this month, the US Air Force literally dropped a giant curtain to reveal its latest fighter jet: the F-15EX Eagle II. The ceremony at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida marked the...
T-7A Red Hawk - The Boeing Company
The T-7A Red Hawk is an all-new Advanced Pilot Training System (APTS) for the U.S. Air Force, with flexibility to evolve as technologies, missions and training needs change. Digitally designed, built and tested, the T-7A is a low-risk, leading-edge, live, virtual and constructive fifth-generation aircrew training system that delivers a multi ...
NGAD Fighter Updates: News About the Air Force's Secret New Jet
Mar 26, 2024 · The U.S. Air Force is allocating nearly $20 billion over five years to develop the Next Generation Air Dominance fighter jet, the replacement for the F-22 Raptor. NGAD will include not only a...
AI-powered fighter jet takes Air Force leader for a historic ride
May 4, 2024 · An experimental F-16 fighter jet has taken Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on a history-making flight controlled by artificial intelligence and not a human pilot.