Sixth-Generation Fighters

The most curious aspect of the J-36 footage seems to be the fact that the footage was taken at all. 

It would be refreshing to hear the Pentagon explain precisely why the nation should be investing so heavily in the next-generation fighter.

The engine’s expanded budget indicates progress to secure the world’s first-ever sixth-generation fighter is being made. The U.S. Air Force’s Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program is a work in progress....

Summary: The United States and China are racing to develop sixth-generation warplanes, signaling intense military rivalry in a multipolar world. China unveiled a mockup of its sixth-generation fighter in 2021,...

To replace the United States Navy’s Super Hornets by the end of the decade, the Navy is already preparing for the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program. “The NGAD FoS...

Key Point: A next-generation F-22 would bring a complementary capability to war in a way that might help foster a complete picture or possibility of combined fifth- and sixth-generation aerial dominance. The Air...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Sixth-Generation fighter developers can be divided into two categories: the United States, which has developed and deployed two stealth fighter types, and countries that...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The future fighter force strategy is aimed at pivoting the Air Force away from a largely 1980s-era legacy aircraft to a modern group of fighter...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Tempest project is betting big on future-oriented experimental avionics systems, with BAE Systems working on a “wearable cockpit” interface that replaces both analog and...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: There is reason for this to be a source of concern for America, as it takes little imagination to simply “observe” that, at least...

The possibility of interconnected Navy-Air Force family of sixth-generation air platforms raises some interesting operational possibilities. Such platforms could potentially change attack paradigms for both services by introducing new stealth properties,...

Air Force sixth-generation aircraft have already taken to the sky, raising the prospect that there may be new innovations in the areas of stealth, weaponry, and sensor technology sufficient to...