A New Sixth Generation Fighter Has Been Built And Flown

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The US Air Force has built and flown a mysterious full-scale prototype of its future fighter jet
By: Valerie Insinna

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force has secretly designed, built and flown at least one prototype of its enigmatic next-generation fighter jet, the service’s top acquisition official confirmed to Defense News on Sept. 14.

The development is certain to shock the defense community, which last saw the first flight of an experimental fighter during the battle for the Joint Strike Fighter contract 20 years ago. With the Air Force’s future fighter program still in its infancy, the rollout and successful first flight of a demonstrator was not expected for years.

“We’ve already built and flown a full-scale flight demonstrator in the real world, and we broke records in doing it,” Will Roper told Defense News in an exclusive interview ahead of the Air Force Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference. “We are ready to go and build the next-generation aircraft in a way that has never happened before.”

Almost every detail about the aircraft itself will remain a mystery due to the classification of the Next Generation Air Dominance program, the Air Force’s effort for fielding a family of connected air warfare systems that could include fighters, drones and other networked platforms in space or the cyber realm.

https://www.defensenews.com/breakin...ll-scale-prototype-of-its-future-fighter-jet/
 
Since they can hardly fly the F35 with the oxygen problems the 6th Gen. better be pilot less.
 
I'm actually going to call bullshit on this story. No way it can be done that fast.

Now, it is entirely possible that they've come up with a new configuration for an existing air platform - for years now the air force has been following the general path of the satellite industry, when they start with an existing platform, which contains a series of buses, which in turn contain sub-systems - that is the whole driving force behind the joint strike fighter and that approach has been retroed into older platforms.

I think it's entirely possible for them to take an existing platform and alter the configuration in such a way that they class it as a "new" fighter, depending on the extent of the alterations.

In the fighter world, the 6th Gen fighters (J35 is a 5th Gen) are pretty much anticipated to be drones. I can easily see them as having successfully created a semi-autonomous drone from existing 5th Gen platforms. Which is awesome in "prepare to serve your robot overlords" kind of way.
 
I'm actually going to call bullshit on this story. No way it can be done that fast.

Now, it is entirely possible that they've come up with a new configuration for an existing air platform - for years now the air force has been following the general path of the satellite industry, when they start with an existing platform, which contains a series of buses, which in turn contain sub-systems - that is the whole driving force behind the joint strike fighter and that approach has been retroed into older platforms.

I think it's entirely possible for them to take an existing platform and alter the configuration in such a way that they class it as a "new" fighter, depending on the extent of the alterations.

In the fighter world, the 6th Gen fighters (J35 is a 5th Gen) are pretty much anticipated to be drones. I can easily see them as having successfully created a semi-autonomous drone from existing 5th Gen platforms. Which is awesome in "prepare to serve your robot overlords" kind of way.

Go right ahead and call it. It's your word against the Air Force. Remember the F-117 was completely operational for five years before you heard anything about it.
 
Americans can't/won't fight anymore, so automated killing machines are required.

Well, I am pretty sure most serving military would disagree with you....

I don't. The thirst for automated/autonomous weapon systems is present and drives a lot of DARPA's research. It's not so much the unwillingness to fight. The Greeks called it Dynamis - the will to war. Rather that the political will to take casualties has fallen drastically and so the related desire to speed toward the robot apocalypse has increased. Who doesn't want to destroy the enemy safely?

If you've never seen it, this viral video is an eye opener. Slaughterbot.

The technology demonstrated here already exists. The only reason we haven't seen this in real life is ethical.
 
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Go right ahead and call it. It's your word against the Air Force. Remember the F-117 was completely operational for five years before you heard anything about it.

Dr. Roper has 60 billion dollars in acknowledged budget, so it is certainly possible. I just doubt they've actually achieved 6th Gen in a year. Now, I don't doubt for a moment that they've got all kinds of cool prototypes from all the major manufacturers and porting over the technology from the KMAX (a fully automated/semi-autonomous helicopter already in production) into a fighter platform is entirely within the realm of possibility, so you could be looking at a F-35 or F-22 or F-18 variant that doesn't have a pilot.

Keep in mind that these kind of public statements are also intended for our enemies and are classically used to scare the bejesus out of them - and make them waste time and money trying to complete with platforms that don't actually exist.

And of course, I fully expect to look out the window one day and see the death-drones orbiting. For, uh, peaceful purposes of course. They'll probably have some cool and ironic name, like the Peacekeeper missile. I'd vote to name it the "F-40 Hipster".
 
Dr. Roper has 60 billion dollars in acknowledged budget, so it is certainly possible. I just doubt they've actually achieved 6th Gen in a year. Now, I don't doubt for a moment that they've got all kinds of cool prototypes from all the major manufacturers and porting over the technology from the KMAX (a fully automated/semi-autonomous helicopter already in production) into a fighter platform is entirely within the realm of possibility, so you could be looking at a F-35 or F-22 or F-18 variant that doesn't have a pilot.

Keep in mind that these kind of public statements are also intended for our enemies and are classically used to scare the bejesus out of them - and make them waste time and money trying to complete with platforms that don't actually exist.

And of course, I fully expect to look out the window one day and see the death-drones orbiting. For, uh, peaceful purposes of course. They'll probably have some cool and ironic name, like the Peacekeeper missile. I'd vote to name it the "F-40 Hipster".

I'm fully aware of the spin the Pentagon can put on statements. This particular one is a flat out statement that seems pretty credible to me. My own experience in dealing with the defense industry leads me to believe the story. The F-22, the only true 5th gen fighter in the World in my opinion and the opinion of people who fly it, has been operational for 15 years. The first day the F-22 took off on an operational flight in 2005, the concept for this aircraft, it's research and development, design engineering, and mock-up of its first test article, was already on the drawing board and under discussion with minimal initial funding. It's been way more than a year.
 
It's been quite quiet for a while (not that I had actively searched for news either) so actually it wouldn't surprise me if they had something.
 
This development begs the question, who are they going to fight with it and what exactly is its operational role?

Every deployment for the last 50 years has been in some form of 'police' action. This development may be brilliant engineering but how does it help control the stone age warriors who terrorize the world?

America has the resources to win militarily in most theatres but finds it almost impossible to follow up the military 'victory' with any civil control. I cannot see that any technical advance will change that problem - and it's a problem not unique to America.
 
Interestingly (to me, anyway) , the Air Force declined to comment as to whether this new plane was crewed or not.

Might be the MOAD (mother of all drones).
 
How effective is this new fighter against Covid. Until we solve that one, we are going to be too busy for fun fights.
 
ANTIFA Ninja's, Radical Democraps and Blue States.

Remember when the Mexican caravans and MS13 were going to "destroy America?"
Now it's Biden and the "socialist Democrats" destroying the country. :rolleyes:

BTW, that plane couldn't have stopped 9/11.
 
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