It’s the NGAD
air force or navy one?
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I believe Air Force
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NGAD flew? Do you have anything more on that, sounds very interesting
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It’s just a quote from the Leader/government minder of the project iirc, but doesn’t specify if it’s the manned or unmanned part of the project. (and the quote itself doesn’t actually say much, it’s alot of guess work)
Sure!
" All I can say is that the NGAD test flights have been amazing – records have been broken" Will Roper,
" Air Force acquisition czar Will Roper revealed today that the service has built a full-scale prototype now in flight testing under the highly classified Next-Generation Air Dominance NGAD program — raising myriad questions about future force structure and potential impacts on the five-year budget plan beginning in 2022."
is PPT😜
What is that supposed to mean?
Doesn’t really matter, we don’t know much about the Chinese 6th gen either do we? All this quote is proving is that the USAF has a 4 year lead on the Chinese 6th gen.
Considering they’ve rolled the NGAD back to requirements fairly recently, one might hazard a guess that 4 year “lead” isn’t as important as people seem to think. Don’t get me wrong, I have my scepticism about the Chinese one too, but until we see photos of the American one I’m going to hazard a guess that the Chinese are currently leading the pack in the 6th gen arms race.
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what if its another MiG-25 situation where it turns out to be a POS in everything but a niche situation.
there is also navy NGAD, which we know far less about, but has apparently porgressed similarly to USAF one however hasnt had the back to requires thing happen
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Alright, but that isn’t really how things work for the rest of the world, (not trying to be offensive here) it’s not because we have videos of the chinese 6th Gen that it’s leading, the USAF has had 4 years to perfect their NGAD, which means they have way more data than the chinese, they also have more experience with stealth aircrafts and ground breaking aviation tech in general.
In any case the USAF is ahead, for now, but if the USA doesn’t want to speed up things a little this might change soon.
once Congress sees that video, all of a sudden AIM-260 funding will double, F-35 funding will increase by 50%, and NGAD budget will be tripled lol
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Oh man that’s what I’m hoping for so much, a good kick in the butt for the US administration! We haven’t had this since the cold war, and we can see how much this matters. The US answer to the Su-27 was the ground breaking 5th Gen F-22 Raptor, imagine what they could do to counter this new Chinese 6th gen.
it never ended, just halftime
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That is true, I hope this turns into a MiG-25 Situation.
The F-117 shootdown wasn’t just about stealth, they detected it at 23km with a radar that likely had a max range of about 80km, but it isn’t actually known what radar or SAM system was used and they had to know the flight path because they couldn’t operate their radars openly for fear of being located, so the radar was only on when the missile was in terminal guidance for only 17 seconds.
And as far as I know, stealth becomes exponentially less effective the closer you get so going from 20km down to 4 is much better than just 5x easier to detect, but the fact is the numbers are classified and everything is just speculation, a MiG-23 might be able to detect a YF-23 at 10km or it might not detect it a 1km, we don’t know because it’s never been tested, but I’d be willing to say within 4-5km even a MiG-23 would see it
PPT＝filmstrip
The meaning of PPT in China is something that has not been tested and is only used for computer calculations or estimated data
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Oh ok thanks, but this doesn’t really apply to the NGAD though.
Coping for 2028 war thunder already
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