I don’t think there is? Yet, at least.
You know how the US government likes to keep its X-planes extremely secretive even after entering service, just like with the F-117.
However we won’t have to wait too long until the first pictures/videos start to appear now that it’s official.
We don’t even know what this is yet, and the picture was taken in 2014.
Photoshop
Lol sure denial intensifies
Looks like something derived from the Aurora project mixed with the appearance of the Su-34
Wow this brings back some memories lol
Back when everyone was talking about it as the “SR-91”. The whole theory just disappeared at some point, I guess people weren’t interested anymore.
With how grainy that is it could easily be a B-2 Spirit, the engines are in the right place and the front end is the exact right shape, the back end dose look more like a straight line, but it blends into the background to well to really tell.
But anyway I’m just saying the idea of this new thing being in front line service by 2028 is pretty far fetched, it takes time to set up production lines, then pilot training programs, then logistics for spares parts, training for maintenance personnel etc. etc. I’ll be surprised if their is an operational squadron by 2040.
I doubt they could have set that up in secret with a mainline fighter, like they did with the U-2s and SR-71s… but time will tell.
I think they understand that it is a Boeing.
You can see pretty clearly that it’s not a B-2 when you zoom in. It looks more like an A-12 Avenger than a B-2.
FAA spokeswoman Alison Duquette said when asked what it was “I do not know.”
An Air Force Official said the aircraft belonged to the service but he did not identify the aircraft.
US Navy officials also could not identify the aircraft.
So yeah, not a B-2 Spirit.
Anyway back to your original comment, 2028 is the official date, thus that is why I put it on the thread.
I agree with you we’ll most probably see some delays, and the F-47s are going to have countless problems, plus pilots will have to retrain on it.
But it certainly won’t be operational in the 2040s, latest it will be is in the 2030s.
Regardless during its annoucement they said it would be in production and in service under Trump’s term.
As you said, indeed, only time will tell.
That probably depends a great deal on how you define “in service” I’m thinking of it as at least a squadron ready to deploy into a combat zone. If you define it as the air force has some and is starting to train the first pilots on them that will become the flight instructors for them, then the time line becomes more reasonable.
Yeah that would be more reasonable, but I don’t think a squadron would be too hard either. Remember it’s not Lockheed Martin making the F-47, it’s boeing. And with how important this contract is to them we’ll surely see better results that LM’s F-35 production disaster.
Their defense sector has been largely focused on NGAD infrastructures and the overall program. They made a bet on it, and they got the contract so I guess it worked.
Also on that triangular aircraft, I changed the luminosity on Gimp and we can see the shape a bit clearer now.
Yeah, defiantly got a straight back end, interesting.
seems like missile buses are the future
that means basically as much as a flying hippo wearing lipstick
PS. heres to all those ragers who claim canards hurt stealth.
L.M.A.O.
Yea you’re missing that Canard are not a problem with Stealth. If you follow the rules. And only when moving it would produce more RCS. But the amounts its about any other Control surface.
His comment its kinda pathetic and biased.
From guess 3ds models it look like it have something like Shinden2 (Kawamori). Design for vertical stabilizer.
That was mostly Western copium. StealthFlanker already disprove that.
I thought the same lol
Well that’s not political at all
No it should be a reserve aircraft.
Haha, canard
nah its just the gaijin-type stance. why take the words of a politician in regards to military research?
i have my own opinions on trump but i wouldve said the same thing if it had been obama or biden
He read a text given by the US Air Force.
