Tailless and twin-engined, that’s gonna be a problem lol
You can see in the first pic that has something before the wing. Strange you can’t see a separation. Maybe are simple canard like in the mirage.
Maybe Levcons?.
1 pic with thing that look like Canard. Other pic don’t anything. And the video look like it have Levcon or Lerx like Su-75.
Nah… so the thing don’t even have a proper design ATM. This just confirmed info from a months ago. That they stopped the dev of this thing. Because they don’t know if the current design its good for current trends.
first is actual pic, second is an artists interpretation of limited info that was made a few years ago iirc
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Yup both are different but the Official image seems to be the one shown in Trump’s announcement.
It even reminds me of the B-21 Raider reveal.
It’s entering production as we speak, the design is very much solid.
Most of flight corrections controlled by computer …give it “cold” like Independence Day and it dead
My gf works at FSB Fifth Service …she told me this “Sekrit”.
And the video? on X?
ive not seen it, I try to avoid that site
You’re smarter than me lol
This is incorrect. They initiated a pause to review the NGAD programs priorities. That review came to the conclusion that “yes, a manned fighter was necessary” and then let the final decision sit until the next administration incase budgeting was prioritized elsewhere.
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Based on that image we have, it almost looks like it has canards lol.
man the video was posted by a USAF general. General David Allvin. And on the video its have a dif configuration. Smaller than Su-57 levcon and bigger than Su-75 lerx.
are they all the manned component or are they showing prototype wingman drones?
F-47 is a proper 6th gen design. I was skeptical of calling anything being produced by any of the countries of being 6th gen and had the assumption they’d instead be late 5th gen design.
New generations require radical airframe changes, the new F-47 gets rid of horizontal stabilizers and still is capable of supersonic flight which is a historic feat in engineering. For a long time aircrafts without horizontal stabilizers such as B-2 bomber could not be supersonic due to lack of horizontal stabilizers.
This is also why I do not regard B-21 Raider as 6th gen as it is not capable of proper supersonic flight without horizontal stabilizers.
Removing horizontal stabilizers have two benefits, one being increased range due to less drag and the other being reduced cross section.
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Flight computers.
It does, zoom in.
Thrust vectoring is pretty much a gimmick. definetly would be surprised on a 6th gen
Plus, it comes from the USA, which was already able to make the first 5th Generation FIghter jet, so I think we can trust them to make the first 6th Gen. They have been the ones creating new Generations for a while.
nah, id be surprised if it didnt because RCS increase of control surfaces, using thrust vectoring to limit the number of control surfaces is very logical
this is making the assumption that they have very fine control of thrust vectoring but I dont see why they wouldnt be able to use it with FBW to compensate for the missing tail.
that image is definitely either artist rendering or AI gen, so im not sure id believe it for design features