iirc, didnt they define 6th gen as AI integration and ability to use and control unmanned platforms and sometimes optional manning
Except 4th gen aircrafts and 5th gen will be able to do that, Rafale and F-35. So that doesn’t work. Avionics and tech can always be jammed into older platforms. What should matter for generation is airframe design.
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Is the BAE Tempest 6th Gen for you?
That is probably a part of the wing or LERX maybe
It’s truly joever for Chinese weather Balloons
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Unfortunately no, it does not get rid of vertical* stabilizers. Doesn’t mean it won’t be as good as a 6th gen, just doesn’t offer a radical change.
Yeah that’s what I was thinking too. Probably just a very advanced 5th Gen.
You don’t need to trade the addition of canards in order to achieve a tailless design though.
That suggests an engineering compromise in order to achieve a specified performance goal instead of absolute peak stealth performance.
The ESSM?lmao the Navy is laughing rn with their AIM-174Bs
well, LREW also exists
but not sure that it would be better
The actual Air Force announcement:
Bc the YF-23 was made by Northrop and McDonnell Douglas, the X-35 was made by Lockheed Martin,the same guys that created the YF-22 together with Boeing
Using the YF-23’s design for a next generation stealth aircraft meant that the YF-23 was the ultimate winner of the ATF program,and not the YF-22
Because they had different requirements and an additional decade of engineering and manufacturing development?
It also has a top speed of “Over 2” and “not many are over 2”. Over 2 what, he did not say.
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It was probably Mach 2, Over 2km/h seems too crazy. :)
Apparently not many jets go over 2! Who knows! Besides this event, knowing that Boeing won NGAD that means NoGr is guaranteed to get F/A-XX))
The B-2 has been flying without a rudder since the 90’s x)
My personal guess is a mix of differential thrust and fluid dynamic magic.
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Oh is Northrop Grumman on the F/A-XX ? I thought they bailed out and Lockheed Martin was on that?
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No it was Lockheed who dropped out, rn it’s just NoGr and Boeing
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Oh alright thanks for the clarification
Last time Grumman made a Navy Fighter it ended up being, totally objectively, no personal opinion involved at all, the best fighter jet ever made!
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