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3 Year Delay: The F/A-XX Fighter Is Starting to ‘Scare’ the U.S. Navy
The US Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter program faces a potential three-year delay as the Pentagon, under the Trump ...
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Boeing will build the US Air Force’s next air superiority fighter
Today, it emerged that Boeing has won its bid to supply the United States Air Force with ... Strike Fighter competition in 2001. A separate effort to award a contract for the NGAD's engine ...
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First US sixth-gen fighter jet will be the F-47, Trump says, and Boeing, not Lockheed, is going to build it
Boeing has been selected to build the US Air Force's sixth-gen fighter aircraft. The Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter is expected to succeed the F-22 Raptor as the top air dominance ...
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Pentagon set to award US Air Force's next-generation fighter jet contract, sources say
The Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD ... fighter jet. Last year, the program faced potential delays or scaling back due to budget pressures and cost overruns in other Air Force programs.
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U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX 6th Generation Fighter Gets Funding Boost, Enters DOT&E’s Operational Test and Live Fire Evaluations
The U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX 6th generation fighter has entered Operational Test (OT&E) and Live Fire (LF&E) Evaluation as the ...
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What makes a fighter jet ‘sixth generation’ and why it matters
Sixth-gen fighters are being built for the wars of the future, wars that will rely more on stealth, sensors, and long-range ...
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Boeing wins Air Force contract for new manned fighter jet to quarterback future drone fleet
A separate Navy contract for its version of the NGAD fighter is still under competition between Northrop Grumman and Boeing. Last year, the Biden administration's Air Force secretary, Frank ...
US F-47, China’s J-35 or Russia’s SU-57: Which is most powerful fighter jet and why?
The F-47 is the most modern 6th generation stealth fighter from the US, with long range and drone integration. Russia's Su-57 ...
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US to deploy world's first sixth-gen fighter by end of decade
The US Air Force has announced that it will go ahead with the production of the F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter. Expected to enter service by the end of the decade, it will ...
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Boeing wins contract to build next-gen F-47 to ensure US air dominance
A separate Navy contract for its version of the NGAD fighter is still under competition between Northrop Grumman and Boeing. Last year, the Biden administration's Air Force secretary, Frank ...
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‘Frankenjet’ stealth fighter made from two wrecked warplanes joins US Air Force fleet
The US Air Force calls it the “Frankenjet,” a stealth fighter stitched together from the parts of two F-35s wrecked in accidents that is now on duty and combat ready. “’Frankenjet’” is ...
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Trump to award US Air Force's next-generation fighter jet contract Friday, sources say
An Air Force spokesperson and ... dismantle the Department of Education. NGAD was conceived as a "family of systems" centered around a sixth-generation fighter to counter near-peer adversaries ...