Working on technologies that won't be realized for decades as technologies advance and by the time they do we will be looking to a 7th gen, but they are far from a 6th gen fighter. They are using F-22's to test new tech for 6th gen fighters. Skunk Works is working on the SR-72 but there isn't a completed 6th gen fighter being hidden and flying around. We are years behind schedule on just completing the T-7A Redhawk. Once it's out of testing it will take 10 years to replace the T-38 fleet. So, agreed they are working on 7th gen tech but I would say that's because it's so far ahead the technologies are concepts with ideas on how to build them but technology needs to advance. 6th gen will have the tech of 5th and be improved upon but the main focus is command and control drone wing men. The F-35 will be upgraded to function with 6th gen tech as fighter pilots are considered more of sensor operators than fighter pilots in the F-35. I'm witnessing this first hand as I'm involved in developing our training right now with the USAF. It's not some big secret either. It's actually coming in perfect timing as everyone knows we have pilot shortages both in commercial and military spaces, though it's not a lack of qualified applicants but many other factors. Drone wing man would be absolutely helpful. There are only so many military contractors the USA uses and they are all severely behind schedule.
This joke is getting old. There is a lot U.S should learn from China. Just look the space station they built single handedly, with a fraction of NASA's budget.
@@felixlarbi1523 china is known only in copying designs but not in quality. The only way China can do is to build large numbers of low quality and substandard war machines for display only to fool the world of their super power status. Bullying is China's main strategy afraid of being exposed of their lies
I've also read this, just don't remember where. Some of the information I had indicated that a 7th gen platform would be highly modular and could be changed out between missions, based on specific Intel. It also suggested that the first true operational 7th gen aircraft could eventually support complete autonomy with out a pilot, but the very first planes would likely be field tested in a situation similar to the loyal wingman system. I suspect there will be piloted aircraft that "quarterback" the operational space with 7th gen likely having advanced risk and threat assessment, with an option to engage a target autonomously. It is crazy how fast the US is from the point of R&D to operational programs. No wonder the spies from China work so hard to steal all our stuff. They are always 1 generation behind, with their new stuff looking like stuff we were using 5 years ago.
The US lost air dominance in the public eye the day they shut down Langley AFB because of the drone incursions. Even had NORAD cry about it to the SASC. Someone's ahead of them.
@@ciousli lol, flying drones over a U.S. facility is a long way from losing air dominance. Kinda like sending a speed boat through a carrier battle group ain’t gonna stop the ability of that carrier group to project power. But if you critical thinking leads yay that way, go ahead comrade.
@@ValinPrezkowski I'm all for the US remaining top dog, don't get me wrong my friend. But if "some drones" can invade that particular airspace over several months and to this extent it doesn't really give the impression they own the sky. Langley is far from just any base you know. In my opinion the message behind those incursions is very clear and the lack of response by the US very telling.
@@ValinPrezkowski Doesn't mean much to have the best fighter jets if adversaries can just ground them with a UAS. In that case yeah, those drones are pretty much pissing all over your tree. There's certainly more nuance to the term "air dominance", but I wonder how much of it really matters when they're able to casually take down Langley.
It's just a usual US BS to overhype themselves so that everyone would believe in their might. US produces overpriced crap. US lost arms race to Russia.
for anyone interested look at the 'Propolsion Gap' memorandum that was given to the senators. it clearly says the patent for a anti gravity device. far beyond is right.
As a former USAF veteran working at Hanscom Field’s ESD, Electronic Systems Division in 1970 I can say this we are light years beyond China, Russia, Iran, Turkey or some guy working in his basement.
Great Britain and Japan are working together to design and build a 6th generation fighter( bypassing a 5th gen). Also Germany and France are working together on one of their own also.
@@ZombieSlayer4D the person in the plane limits its capacities. Once the pilot is removed the defensive capability will go through the roof. We may be seeing the final generation of manned fighter jet.
@@_Epsilon_ wym? The B-2 bomber is a 6th Gen fighter. It is expensive thats for sure. Right now, as far as we know, the NGAD 6th gen fighters and Darkstar is in production rn. The Darkstar will prob release before the NGAD fighters do since its closest to being finished.
Fighting in space (off topic but logical next step) is going to be very hard to do in leo.. because you have to maintain orbital speeds to keep from falling back to earth. Changing directions will be very difficult at 17000mph and will generally take time and fuel. Slowing down is a death sentence and also speeding up will sling you out of orbit.. fighting in space will be more hinged around destroying satellites than dogfighting in space. At least until we figure out some kind of antigravity (this will be difficult because gravity is not a force).
Gravity isn't a force (according to Einstein) but matter warps space and matter is made of energy, so it seems logical to me that if you can produce and shape enough energy, it should be doable. When we'll be able to do that is a whole other question, but gravitational waves have proven that space is maleable, so that's encouraging. And ofc, you also have people like Bob Lazar who claim to have worked on antigravity propulsion tech at S4. He said gravity is a wave that has a long and short acting component (gravity A and B). Gravity A is what we think of normally and Gravity B is a gravity wave that extends out from the nucleus of an atom. Element 115 is necessary to use in propagation of this wave because it's the first atom with a large enough nucleus that the gravitational wave B actually extends past the electron cloud and can be interacted with to be amplified or taken out of phase, etc. If that's true, it'll probably be even longer since we are no where near creating a stable isotope of 115, let alone large enough quantities that it's actually usable for anything practical in a lab, let alone space travel.
Northrop Grumman dropped out of the race... so it's just Boeing and Lockheed Martin left from the major conglomerates. I think a few new companies are bidding too, but seem to be aiming more for the drone wingman for the NGAD 6th generation fighter.
It will probably be a majority Boeing product with some parts produced by both Lockheed and Northrop-Gruman. My reason for saying this is because both Lockheed and Northrop-Gruman have their production floors full of F-35, and B-21 production.
US lost arms race to Russia. Russia is two generations ahead in air defence systems, in cruise missiles, in anti-ship missiles. US doesn't even have supersonic missiles, everything is subsonic while Russia produces SCRAMJET hypersonic Zirkon. Renewal of Russia's ICBMs is in full swing, US just plans but as usual struggles and is over budget. Russia's air-to air missiles are also the best and most proven. R-37M hypersonic air-to air missiles with 400 km range. Then there is Poseidon (nuclear underwater drone), Peresvet (laser), unlimited range Burevestnik (nuclear powered). . US? Just overhyped and overpriced crap. Can't even afford 2 engined heavy fighter jet.
The Russians couldnt even build a 5th Gen jet from the Mig 1.4 and the Su 57 comparatively the SU 57 vs the F22 has a RCS compared to bumble bee of the F22 to a freaking elephant of the SU 57.
@@KastriotBerisha-g2i The Ukraine in 2022 had the 28th ranked military , Russia #2 or #3. A comparative against near peer opponents lets use the USA vs Iraq it took the USA 2 weeks to destroy capture and executed Saddam Hussein. Russia picks on small countries like Georgia, Moldova, Chechnya now the Ukrainians and they lose 100,000's of dead not enemies but their own military.
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6Gen Psft, David Favor Said "I would like to say that the Tic Tac Object that we engaged in Nov 2004 was far superior to anything that we had at the time, have today, or are looking to develop in the next 10+ years. If we in fact have programs that possess this technology, it needs to have oversight from those people that the citizens of this great country elected to office to represent what is best for the United States and in the best interest of its citizens." Until we acknowledge the tic tac then all these Next Gen aircraft is just baby steps.
The 6th generation fighter jet offers technological capabilities that far exceed previous generations. With features such as stealth, artificial intelligence (AI), advanced sensors and improved communications networks, these jets provide significant advantages on the modern battlefield. This advantage is critical to maintaining air dominance and ensuring superiority in combat scenarios 😘🥰😘🥰😘🥰
Don't boast that u can fly 60000 ft because the enemy radar can see u too. But the bigger missiles from enemy ship have longer range to intercept your attack.
The 6th generation fighter may be the last manned fighter representing the bridge that transitions us from manned to fully unmanned fighters. My guess is that next generation fighter will still have a man in the loop but the unmanned fighter will no longer be a wingman and the manned component could be farther back in a platform like the B-21.
They should start building fighter jets with small nuclear powered electric thruster engines that don't require liquid fuel and can run for years like the aircraft carriers.
fluid extreme acceleration/deceleration aircraft changes the game. Jet engines in a car are great until you need to make a quick turn. Kind of like Maverick hitting his air brake and find himself behind perusing Aircraft/missile even with activated proximity fuse. Extreme acceleration/Deceleration. Electric vehicle's instant maximum torque.
What worries me is the marriage of AI and Quantum computers, are the loyal wingmen safe, or could they be taken over by AI from a foreign power? This is something others have mentioned that our best encryption is no match for quantum computers, throw AI into the mix and we could have some serious problems.
I wonder: could it be affordable, even for the US? Looking at the costs of the latest fighters the US developed (F-22 and F-35) I’m afraid that only a few can be procured?
There already are missiles and direct energy weapons to shoot down satellites and other space faring objects. Also satellites that kill other satellites. Weapons that fall directly from space and destroy ships at sea. It's further along than most people think. Already a few countries have tested hypersonic missiles and crafts.
Our enemies have AI. What's to stop a hack that triggers our weapons to attack us? For example, skin walker ranch spirit phenomenon routinely hacks Iphones. What if these anomalies can hack any technology and our enemies clone that tech. Anything is possible. Our weapons can become our nightmare if we loose control.
The problem with most of any security issues on who knows or should know about these aircraft before they are released to the public is vital. Seems to me these companies involved in the making of these aircraft and their systems are not being trusted to who should be employed in the production and manufacturing of them.
I live next to Hill AFB and I’m constantly near Tunopah range and I remember seeing the F35 thinking oh F22 until oh single engine. This was 2011 4 years before it went public I believe there testing from HIll AFB to Area 51.
Most our tech came from darpa decades after they made it. Gen 5s were probably designed in the late 70s to mid 80s. So we’re probably on Gen 7 or 8 and beyond that.
Sorry we heard this already decades ago about the F-35, first flight in 2006 - started in the AIR FORCE flying in 2015 and jet not in full production. The US Air Force General has called it a Sh*t.
6th gen has been flying for a while. F22 was old news when it was unveiled. 7the gen is most likely nearing or already complete. Where do you think all those lost trillions of dollars go?
The best fighter would be a drone controlled by AI; humans are obsolete and slow also they could never endure the G-forces a hypersonic fighter would travel at.
How would Americans feel if through negligence, indifference or profit such deep, vital classified information was shared or passed along to our adversaries?
Frank Kendall said that NGAD needs to have twice the operational radius of the F35 at the same cost as the F35. This is because China has developed ultra-long-range anti-aircraft missiles that can target tankers. The weapon bay can be the same size as the F35 because the CCA (Collaborative Combat Aircraft) carries the missiles. The US Navy also needs a fighter with twice the operational radius of the FA18. Stealth is the lowest requirement for carrier-based aircraft because the weapon bay is difficult to install and remove missiles. The new design of GCAP meets the requirements of both the US Air Force and the US Navy. The US Navy needs twin-engine aircraft. Let's work with Boeing to get the US Air Force and US Navy on board. Lockheed Martin could create a revised NGAD by enlarging the wings and fuel tanks of the F-35. Fighters would have to visually identify friendly targets with broken identification friend or foe systems before firing a missile. If missile launches were left to the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), there would be no need for a weapons bay, reducing manufacturing and maintenance costs.
By the time these 6th generation super-duper jets actually go into production & service, 10-20 years would have passed them by while Russia and China would already have squadrons of their 10th generation fighter jets.
@@timper4326 China was a very late starter into the technological age .. instead of reinventing the wheel, they studied and figured out the nuts-and-bolts and sciences ... then they improved on the design and concepts to make them better.... and finally, they innovate the product into a higher level of technology and design to the point that the products become synonymous to being a made-in-China product.
Other powerful countries can create and manufacture advanced weapon planes too, but, it’s the cost and the maintenance of these program that keeps those countries left behind. America might spend a billion dollars on one super advanced plane while China spends a billion dollars on 100 far less advanced planes.
Russia doesn’t have a 5th generation aircraft. So how they going to build a 6th generation aircraft? Ooooo, they will repaint one of there migs, change the wings and call it a 6th generation!😂
Russia barely has 4th generation... they are trying to claim they have 5th gen, and they are working on 6th. However, they also said they were the strongest military on earth, so...
Finally you get to the AI Buzz. The only thing you left out was solar power and solid-state batteries😂😂😂😂 The future of death looks really nice. Thank you for this beautifully presented bull💩. I was rolling on the floor holding my stomach while whizzing on myself laughing.
@@jcbbb Nothing wrong thinking of America, Especially Argentina, Brazil, Mexico. I know what you mean, the US. Yep not exclusive from the rest of humanity. I do hope one day, we can all look at each other, as brothers and sisters....but neocons, US hegemony, global greed...fill in the gaps
