Over the past five years, in strong partnership between the Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, X-planes have been laying the foundation for the F-47. These experimental aircraft have flown hundreds of hours, advancing stealth, range, and autonomous systems while refining operational concepts.
Yeah… They’ve been flying PowerPoints for the last 5 years…
Will be as useful as the Nighthawk. You won’t appear on radar, but game mechanics uncover your position anyways. Either by player brackets or huge, very distinct contrails if you try to avoid eyeball detection by flying high.
Current game mechanics make stealth approaches quite a bit pointless in main game modes. Superior flight performance is likely still with 4th gen air superiority fighters. Just look at this animation, its all about stealth, I can’t imagine this thing maneuver alot, due to lack of control surfaces.
bro it got unveiled TODAY 😭😭
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Well, if that would have been commercial civil aircraft - maybe
But with defence boieng had less troubles
Can also put F/A-XX on that list
If you’re referring to GCAP, they already modified the Excalibur flight test plane with pods for accommodation of the various sensors and systems. I’m not sure if they’ve already mounted them though. 3 pods are currently installed.
From December:
Additional pods are to be mounted on the test plane in another phase, including that of the radar.
Bläh.
They don’t build Aircraft anymore.
Let’s face it, the Golden Age of Aviation is over.
Logical evolution of course, but I’ll sure miss the Spitfires, Sabres, Hunters, Phantoms, Tomcats, …
Yah know, real aircraft, that you had to “fly”, not just “control”…
canards help it fly without vertical stabilizer
canards are for high speed i guess
Might be, would make sense if you need to control that airflow magic to still work at around or over mach 1.
thats why they call it 6th gen lol
This proves that American engines are outdated and have to use canards.
no, for high speed, it will guarantee the safety of jet
what is game masters? when they call you game master?
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Considering how EVERY 6th gen design incorporates at least one aspect from the YF-23, i guess we know that the ultimate winner of the ATF program was not the YF-22,but we already knew it.
The Black Widow II was too advanced for the requirements of the program,and moreover the DoD feared to create a monopoly if they gave the contract to Northrop (which already won the contract for the B-2) and McDonnell (which was responsible for the F-15,the F/A-18,the AV-8B and some cargo/utility aircrafts)
So the choice fell upon Lockheed (which,at the time,was only producing the F-117 and the C-130) and Boeing (which was literally maintaining the B-52 at the time,no fighters ever created during that period)
It has got the brand new Adaptive Engines. Besides China has to use 3 engines to keep their “6th Gen Fighter” in the air.
Wrong, China has 2 6th-gen aircraft
1st of all, yes they do have to use 3 engines, 2nd of all we don’t even know if the other one is a fighter or a drone wingman.
