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The NGAD originated from Defense Advanced Research Project Agency studies initiated in 2014 to explore concepts for air superiority systems of the 2030s for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy. DARPA completed its Air Dominance Initiative study in March 2014 and based on the results, the Department of Defense acquisition chief Frank Kendall launched the Aerospace Innovation Initiative (AII) in ...
An early rendering of a proposed Boeing F/A-XX design. In April 2012, the Navy issued a formal request for information for the F/A-XX. It calls for an air superiority fighter with multi-role capabilities to initially complement and eventually supersede the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft in the 2030s, while complementing the F-35C Lightning II and UCLASS unmanned aircraft ...
The Air Force has already paused the NGAD program amid estimates that the NGAD fighters will cost $250 million apiece, or about triple the price of an F-35. Skeptics may also question the alarm ...
Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute suggested the Chengdu aircraft could be the potential adversary to NGAD and give American planners incentives to continue the NGAD program. [27] USAF official Andrew P. Hunter acknowledged the J-36 may achieve initial operational capability (IOC) earlier than American sixth generation fighter programs, but ...
The United States Air Force (USAF) and United States Navy (USN) are anticipated to field their first sixth-generation fighters around 2030. [49] [50] The USAF is pursuing development and acquisition of a sixth-generation air superiority fighter through the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program that succeeds the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.
Collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) is the official US Air Force designation for an autonomous combat drone, and is broadly equivalent to the loyal wingman. [27] XQ-58A Valkyrie unmanned combat aerial vehicle. The USAF Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program was initiated in 2014. It includes the development of CCA.
The Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet in Washington on Wednesday was on a training flight along a route core to a seldom-discussed military mission to evacuate senior ...
Army secretary nominee Daniel Driscoll questioned whether Army helicopters should be flying training missions in one of the nation’s most congested flight paths after Wednesday's tragic ...