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The Air Force’s secret next-gen fighter has reached development phase
breaking defense ^ | June 01, 2022 | VALERIE INSINNA

Posted on 06/02/2022 6:41:21 PM PDT by American Number 181269513

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The NGAD fighter would cost multiple hundreds of millions of dollars.

Once the adjustments for inflation and corruption are determined they will have the actual price.


1 posted on 06/02/2022 6:41:21 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
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To: American Number 181269513

Sure is a nice looking bird...but how long will it be before fighters are replaced by drones? Maybe at that point we can just have machines fight the wars.


2 posted on 06/02/2022 6:44:49 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: American Number 181269513

Which war is it fighting?


3 posted on 06/02/2022 6:46:42 PM PDT by rellic
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To: American Number 181269513

And the Chinese will have the complete design plans within a year


4 posted on 06/02/2022 6:52:48 PM PDT by TheCipher (I am a proud member of the LGBT (Let's Go Brandon Trolls ) community)
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Yep.


5 posted on 06/02/2022 6:56:49 PM PDT by laplata ("They want each crisis to take it's toll)
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“Sure is a nice looking bird...but how long will it be before fighters are replaced by drones? Maybe at that point we can just have machines fight the wars.”

That may not be that far-fetched!


6 posted on 06/02/2022 6:58:47 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: American Number 181269513

looks an awful lot like the F-23...


7 posted on 06/02/2022 6:58:56 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: American Number 181269513

Could turn out to be a flying Littoral Combat Ship (LCS).


8 posted on 06/02/2022 7:01:10 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Progressives want to demoralize people so that they are afraid to be ambitious.)
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To: Chode

It sure does.


9 posted on 06/02/2022 7:03:30 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: American Number 181269513

No “Monica” ?


10 posted on 06/02/2022 7:04:02 PM PDT by nicollo
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“Monica” is looking for BJ! ;-)


11 posted on 06/02/2022 7:12:57 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Land is simply a place I visit until I can return to the sea.)
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To: rellic

You can predict the winner by figuring out which defense contractor has the most retired generals on their payroll. Raptor was a fluster cluck when it came out of EMD. F-35 was no better. They were too arrogant to learn from Raptor. Typical Lock-Mart.


12 posted on 06/02/2022 7:13:14 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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I was under the impression that the F-35 was supposed to be all that and a bag of chips, now they want another??? Oh, wait, Military Industrial Complex, graft, and so on. Business as usual.


13 posted on 06/02/2022 7:15:27 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: American Number 181269513

I used to drink with a guy who was deep into the Boeing flight training program related to the F-22. Their program was only simulators.

He was told the F-35 would be the last manned fighter.


14 posted on 06/02/2022 7:18:46 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Chode

Sssshhh!!!

This is a SECRET plane!!!


15 posted on 06/02/2022 7:25:58 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Chode
kinda but not that close but considering aerodynamics desired and stealth desired there will be common looking features
16 posted on 06/02/2022 7:26:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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the f-35 was given to lockheed martin for two major reasons

1 - if they didn’t get it they’d have zero military aircraft contracts

2 - boeing had done a late-stage partial redesign which made their plane work a lot better, arguably better than lockheed’s plane, but because of that, had not hit the complete testing milestones needed with those new changes in the competition/development timeframe


17 posted on 06/02/2022 7:30:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: American Number 181269513

Dumb - drones are clearly the technology we need. The AF is run by fighter pilots who can’t get over the fact that their tech is obsolete.


18 posted on 06/02/2022 8:14:44 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: SaveFerris

ooops... my bad


19 posted on 06/02/2022 8:28:41 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Secret Agent Man

yeah, it looks a more like the 23 than it does the 22


20 posted on 06/02/2022 8:30:50 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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