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US Air Force Fighter?

#1 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Sep 17, 2020 2:40 pm

Interesting claim!

https://www.defensenews.com/breaking-ne ... ghter-jet/
The U.S. Air Force has secretly designed, built and flown at least one prototype of its enigmatic next-generation fighter jet, the service’s top acquisition official confirmed to Defense News on Sept. 14.

The development is certain to shock the defense community, which last saw the first flight of an experimental fighter during the battle for the Joint Strike Fighter contract 20 years ago. With the Air Force’s future fighter program still in its infancy, the rollout and successful first flight of a demonstrator was not expected for years.

“We’ve already built and flown a full-scale flight demonstrator in the real world, and we broke records in doing it,” Will Roper told Defense News in an exclusive interview ahead of the Air Force Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference. “We are ready to go and build the next-generation aircraft in a way that has never happened before.”

Almost every detail about the aircraft itself will remain a mystery due to the classification of the Next Generation Air Dominance program, the Air Force’s effort for fielding a family of connected air warfare systems that could include fighters, drones and other networked platforms in space or the cyber realm.
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Re: US Air Force Fighter?

#2 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Sep 18, 2020 5:27 pm

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The U.S. Air Force believes new digital aerospace engineering processes—using computers to design, model, and test aircraft before an actual prototype is built—are so revolutionary that it will now assign a lowercase “e” to the designation of current and future planes designed in such a way.
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Re: US Air Force Fighter?

#3 Post by ian16th » Fri Sep 18, 2020 8:09 pm

TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Fri Sep 18, 2020 5:27 pm
The U.S. Air Force believes new digital aerospace engineering processes—using computers to design, model, and test aircraft before an actual prototype is built—are so revolutionary that it will now assign a lowercase “e” to the designation of current and future planes designed in such a way.
I thought that Boeing did this some years ago, albeit with a civilian a/c.

What they kept very quite about was that they used French software!
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Re: US Air Force Fighter?

#4 Post by barkingmad » Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:58 pm

“whether it was uncrewed or optionally crewed,”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/fight ... e=telegram

Seems likely they might urgently need more unmanned combat aircraft if this keeps up?

Mind you the affected and grounded aircrew can always sit in a portacabin in the desert and fly the beast remotely as per the film “Eye in the Sky”.

And there’s less risk of them getting killed or (more) seriously injured in combat...

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