The Best 6th Generation Fighter Concepts-Explained 

The problem with the American design, is that it won't be capable of high altitude or high speed. There are pros and cons of not having a tail. One of the big cons is altitude. The thing is limited to medium altitude and maybe even slower speeds. Since its objective is stealth, this is likely the logic behind the design. Laser tech is serious. This kind of tech could possibly make it invulnerable to a lot of missiles. I think USA has the superior fighter here.

Deep down we all know Mitsubishi F-X can transform into a Giant Robot when needed...

Since this is all speculation I'm going to throw the 6th Gen fighter I drew in 3rd grade into the mix... It's as viable as the rest of these guesses.

It's amazing how far aviation has come since the Wright Brothers took to the air. If you think about it, just 100+ years ago we were still fighting in the air with wood and canvas.

they all look good - but I've just imagined an 8th gen fighter that is better. I plan it to have an 'I win' button, god mode, time travel, and rgb lighting........

What I found interesting about the 6th generation designs is that I see elements that resemble those on Northrop/McDonnell Douglas YF 23. V tails, blended wings & fuselage (for a flatter profile), some what diamond shaped wings. Some of the photos of the mock ups and prototypes even fool the eye for a moment. Given these proposed designs, you could argue that the YF 23 actually leapfrogged over the 5th generation and was proto 6th generation over 30 years ago!

I'm thinking the 6th-gen fighters will be robot-controlled. If you can remove the need for a pilot, the requirements for the plane improve greatly.

The thing is,…air superiority, not who has the best fighter. You can have a flying chariot as long as it can maintain air superiority! I think the future is looking at maybe one manned fighter with several unmanned drones linked up with electronic warfare and ground/air capabilities.

You know The Tempest is a big deal when Japan drops the FX to work alongside Britain in creating its technology.

I strongly suspect that 10 years from now, the idea of a manned fighter surviving long on the battlefield will have gone away. Drones will have sufficient AI to engage and autonomously out maneuver any manned vehicle.

3:48 ... me, in Balkans ... probably our forces will still fly with MiG 21 ! OLDIES ,BUT GOLDIES :D

Design wise the Mitsubishi FX and the Ngad fx!!! Japan and US!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇯🇵🇯🇵

5th gen fighter = Tough , Heavy armaments 6th gen fighter = Bald , Smoooooth , W I D E

I love how they just breeze by the idea of a Air Superiority Fighter than can possibly cut another Fighter in half with a high powered laser. Definitely made my eye brows go up.

The Chinese design is mostly impacted by their espionage capabilities.

Me 262 should be on the list

The Tempest is being built by the UK , Italy and Sweden and Japan and India were also invited to join Team Tempest at present only Japan has shown an interest.

In paper you can draw and write all you want, In practice…. Not so much.

6th Gen fighters: *cutting edge stealth technology. Upgraded AAMs: “We do not care”

I'm glad they prepare for the future generations.

For a man pilot fighter jets to be future feasable, the cockpit will require a gyro craftmatic stand&seat mix, maximizing g-force pressure endure and isolating pitch/roll extreme manuevers. Also break rappit flaps that can vector maneuver while deaccel fast, as the jet accelerates. As well the AI craft, will need a non-chem afterburners, to rely in storage saving.

Have we reverted back to the 1910s where you can be an "arms designer" by drawing something on a piece of paper and submitted it to your local factory or government?

Tempest is going to include hypersonic missiles & focused energy weapons too.

"High energy laser capable of cutting enemy aircraft in half" Sure!

Will fourth and fifth generation fighters be produced in the next 60 years? New generation fighters are crazy expensive how can developing countries buy them?

which do you think is the best six generation fighter programs "You wanna find out" *starts WW3*

i like how airplanes are slowly turning into frisbees...

Team tempest for me there...looks good on the RAF website 👍

fun fact: FCAS and F-X (or F3) can tilt their horizontal stabilizers from angled to almost fully horizontal and the american system is called F/A-XX

Aerodynamic and body of fighters is important, but the most important of next generation fighters will be their engines and thrusters capabilities specially the amount of exhaust jet less temperature. Less temperature will be a very competitive factor in future.

I love these weird designs. Reminds me of the dawn of the jet age where they tried any strange design because it could be the next big thing.

The cobra is mainly an air show trick. You never want to find yourself in a zero or negative energy state during ACM.

the tempest, as it will have hypersonic missiles, and laser weapons like the others, but will also have LANCA - swarming drone technology

This is all artist concept stuff. That's fine. But if you see something with the jet air intake above the wings then you know it's serious about stealth. You can not have high alpha performance from this configuration but I suppose the cure would be an active opening below the wing (louvers?) that could deploy or open during maneuvering.

I love that every design uses ammo bays, in order to minimize the radar signature, and the Russians just put the rockets on pylons outside in their visualisation, like if that ever made sense in the era where everyone tries to maximize stealth capacity cause getting detected usually means death. On the other hand, I guess if your design is never gonna leave the planning board, you might just as well put whatever into it. And Russians weren't going to be able to develop something modern in large quantities even before their invasion, and now they will probably struggle with producing anything more complicated than a toothstick.

The GNAD and FA/XX, being American, will be the best at overrunning budget estimates.

Heck, I want 15 of each for the RCAF. Lets do a 20 year study on the different fighters during peace time then we can give a solid review

These are the aircraft that invading Aliens will have to deal with!

The FCAS alliance between Germany, France and Spain will crumble because they all want to put their industries in the deal even if they are not the best suited. France will probably quit and make an uprgade of the rafale or try to develop 6th gen but only if they can associate with others like Benelux. It's my guess

I believe the Japanese are joining the Tempest team 🤔 interesting to see tempest and the taranis drone 👍🏻🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

First of all my compliments for the great job you're doing again and again. I have a request: is it possible to make video's with military satellites and the military systems in space? Your team for sure has the quality to do that job.

It seems that we're about to have another jump forward in aircraft tech. We had one when we developed jet engines. Now we're just kind of throwing things against the wall, to squeeze a bit more out of that. Soon, we will have an engine that allows for a practical aerospace fighter. The engine that can grant this will dictate all aircraft that follow.

Japan France Germany Italy : we don't have 5th Generation, but we will make 6th! Big joke

Primary user for the FCAS has the RAF stated, this will definitely NOT be the case

It is fun to listen about F/A-XX after there are confirmed programm of heavily upgrading of F-16. Basically it is new craft based on F-16. F-16 EX or something like I believe. Also Loyal Wingman program.

"High energy laser capable of cutting enemy aircraft in half." You what?! The Airforce has Star Trek phasers now?

There are several problems. First of all the US is the only country with a true 5th generation fighter and they have 2. Russia is likely the closest, but they still lack many features, they are struggling getting the desired engine performance they wanted, and their stealth is not as good as they had hoped. China is missing even more features, also struggling with their engines, and has even worse stealth that Russia. Japan has good manufacturing so they can likely get the systems up and running, but they lack a lot of the logistics to back it up. While there is radar that can detect the US stealth aircraft easier, it is typically bulkier and less accurate. It is also FAR easier to jam or to interfere with, like with chaff. They are better off working with something like an AWAX or satellite and ground based radar, but again they lack a lot of the logistics and would have to lean on the US. In the end they might just rely on the US. Russia ism pretty good at speed. They likely can get the speeds needed for a 6th generation (Mach 3+). They still will struggle to get any of the other systems for a 5th generation updated by then. China will not get this level of speed for a long time and Russia is not going to sell them the engines. They lack the logistics... their JPS satellites suck, their stealth sucks... and their government is riddled with corruption, bribes, and complete lies. They will likely just massively exaggerate the capabilities of their fighter jet and think everybody will believe them somehow. The biggest issue is that China really struggles to design anything of their own and will likely try to copy, steal, or buy most of the technology for this fighter jet, but it takes a lot more than just the blueprints to make a craft like this. Germany will likely fall flat and pull funding and just hope to be able to buy some from the US or figure out someway around the need for these fighter jets. France is similar, but they have been releasing fighter jets on a pretty regular basis. I think they will fall short, but maybe they can get a solid 5th generation fighter similar to Russia's, but maybe slightly slower. The US has struggled to hit the speeds that Russia has but if they manage to get a hybrid engine working they should have no problems. They also have the best stealth technology by far and FAR more experience in most of the other areas... especially if they add defensive lasers. If they do these craft will be near impossible to shoot down and would give the US a huge lead. If they can not get the hybrid engines going or fit the laser defense system on the jet then it will likely be only slightly better than what Russia will make... except that the US will order 500 and Russia will get 50. The US has pretty successfully kept its 20 year lead in military technology going and in some areas might be more.

No Country is even close to having a 6th Generation airplane flying except the United States...they probably have a 7th or even 8th or beyond generation flying now, and we don't even know it! That's where the Aurora comes to play!

Design-related stealth (shape and materials) is a very difficult matter, maximising manufacturing quality, complexity, maintenance and costs and minimising aerodynamic performance. In my humble opinion, pursuiting it after a point is pointless ;) and focus should be on signal tampering (aka 'active stealth') or some totally new 'cloaking' technologies also in the visible spectrum (as there already exist IRST/Optical detection devices with a range of more than 50-60 km, it means soon short/medium range radars up to 200 km will become of secondary importance). UAVs is NOT a substitute for manned fighters in REAL fight as long as they require remote quidance (which means the link and the systems are susceptible to EW), unless we come up to real self-controlled AI, but we are still many years from such level - of course if you may employ tens of UAVs then we talk about saturation advantage - but not capability as such. UAVs are perfect though for patrolling, reconnaisance, attack air defences based on numbers and paving the ground for the follow-on fighters etc.

Funny thing, if the b2 bomber continues to be the #1 stealth plane 30 years later, imagine what the usa had up is sleeves with its 6th gen, it's going to be more like a 12 green where everyone has to catch up 30 years again.

F22 raptor still marvelous🔥

I know I'm coming off as a homer but I'm intrigued about the tailless design. The F-22 with its thrust vectoring tech can do some insane maneuvers n now an F-22 without a tail. Yeah I'm sold on that one even if it isn't the TR-3B lol

No 6th generation, futuristic, stealthy, laser-shooting, almost alien-like jet is better (and more good looking) than the legendary old Tomcat (F-14). Especially deep down in our hearts.

Thank you for your video. 1:24 Thats an F4 Phantom's grandson right there 3:22 Hmm, someone loved the Vulcan so much 4:30 and 7:10 The movie "Stealth" that didnt go well 4:46 F-117 look alike?

Japan, which can't even make 5th generation fighter jets, is making 6th generation fighter jets? LOL

no-one can afford more than a dozen of any of these.

Amca 🔥

sundar video..😊

The new Star Wars Trailer looks awsome.

*Hope US will put mini-drones on that F-X, that can fire missiles/lasers or like a kamikaze drone.*

looking forward to the Tempest, It's been too long since we had a domestically made fighter . . . that being said knowing, our luck drone systems will be so good by the 2030s that it'd just turn out to be a colossal waste of money.

Just a small correction: The NGF is the combat aircraft of the future, which should replace the French Rafale and the German Eurofighter from 2035/2040. This fighter is the central element of the SCAF, the air combat system of the future: the SCAF, it will be an aircraft + missiles + drones + other connected systems ... vote of the German parliamentarians, and it was decided now, since ...the first flight of the prototype is to fly in 2026... and no longer 2025 because our partners, mainly Germans as very often have delayed the negotiations! Dassault had to threaten (March 2021) to find a plan B for the agreements to be found ... (May 2021) ... I feel that Dassault and France will do as for the Eurofighter! ... Personally I would prefer this solution even if I am for a European defense development! ... but for that, the countries must all have the same vision! ... Which does not seem to me to be won at all!

Is that a stealth fighter with a freakin laser beam on it's forehead?

9 gen fighter will not have missils... it will have mini drones that the pilot will control via the helmet with the swarm program LOL

VR Helmet sights can eliminate the need for cockpits and display screens.

Imagine you're supposed to be intercepting a bomber then you're wingman's plane just gets cut in half and you figure out there are 4 flying wing stealth aircraft around you. It's scary to thing about.

I can't possibly make a judgement about which of these will be best. Their capabilities are speculative at this point. By 2030 we should have a better idea of how these programs are coming along. I will say that the possibility of laser weaponry on the next generation of aircraft is exciting, at the very least for the obvious parallel to science fiction. Sci-fi aside, lasers actually should have more potential than missiles to achieve a higher kill probability. You can't shoot a laser down. And lasers travel at the speed of light, which maximizes the chances that your target will still be where you were aiming by the time it arrives, and ensures that the enemy can have no advanced warning that they are being shot at prior to the shot arriving (because no information can travel faster than light). The only problem is that it would take an immense amount of energy to make a laser powerful enough to actually damage an enemy aircraft (it is basically just light, which is usually pretty harmless). Can we make a powerful enough battery to do that which is small and light enough to fit in an aircraft?

From the videos I've seen, Tempest looks super badass.

Generation 30 will be a full operational copy of the Mars war machines used in " The war of the worlds " movie made in 1953.

The other important thing this video doesn't take into account is is each of these countries can afford them, Russia sure as shit cant

With all due respect, none of those countries outside of the US even have a fifth generation fighter let alone a sixth generation fighter. How are they building a sixth generation fighter when they haven't mastered a fifth generation yet?

4g, 5g, 6g, 7g..hype, hype, hype... this G stuff is getting ridiculous. And the defence planners are ever ready to throw huge amount of money to buy these expensive toys. Questions must be asked whether these toys are really essential.

Tempest has of course, great companies behind, BAE, Leonardo and SAAB, but the other too, with Rafale, Thales, Airbus, i think the European should work together, it would save money and produce the best fighter ever seen, but otherwise, competition is good for Europe!!

I love the US FX fighters. Looks like something that will fit right in with many nerd's GI Joe collection.

Its good all these countries are developing stealth fighters. In future wars none of these fighters will be able find each other in the air to shoot down. Good no jet fighter pilots will be killed. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😎😎😎🤩😛😛😛🤩😎😎😎😯😎😎😎😎😎😎😎🤣🤣🤣🤩🤩

Our 6th gen’s prototype already flew. don’t know when they will show us it, the last secret development program like this was in the 70’s and they kept that plane in use yet out of public eye for 20+ years

Why didn’t you include India’ S AMCA mark2

The US has 6th Gen fighters in testing.. No other country is within 20 years of being able to test one. The US is capable of producing them basically today if they wanted. No other country is within 30 years of production. The US has the economic output to make hundreds. At a price in the Billions, per unit, no other economy is capable of producing more than a handful at best.

Puchechevs's cobra is a death sentence in a real dogfight cause you lose all your energy. But very cute how you try to make it sound useful.

i dont know that much about it but i dont think the lasers would b able to cut an aircraft in half.i think they just focus so much energy or heat in one small area that they can ignite payloads or destroy the computer or different components insanely fast. it may be possible if both planes were parked on the runway but maybe not even then. im know theres lasers that could but the one there putting on this aircraft isnt meant for that, but im just speculating and i could be 100% wrong.

It's interesting to notice that the Mig-41 is actually a fan made artwork proposed firstly on Artstation. 🤔

The odds of some of these jets being used in future combat will be very slim. I mean even existing fighters like the F22 have barely gotten a taste of real air combat.

By definition a 6th generation fighter is tailless. So only the two US designs and maybe the Chinese one (if it is based on the tailless pictures from the ones you showed) can be considered as 6th generation. All other plane designs in the video, are at best 5+ generation.

I love that the Chinese are like "USA plane has laser? Our every plane has laser that can cut your USA apart!"

Y con este video ya se sabe que la pobreza y la desigualdad no se terminaran nunca.

No way！ The best 6th Gen Fighter is in my PowerPoint/.

I really like the idea of many unmanned aircrafts which are also stealth.

its funny when Russia and China plans to build 6th gen aircraft when Russia alone couldn't mass produced their SU-57 Felon because of budget restraints, unreliable engine and cost overrun for the development program, its possible but not anytime soon. while China was able to produced 20 J-20 but still not enough to overrun the us hundred fleets of F-22 Raptor

The US has already built and is testing the prototype 6th Gen. Fighter .... !

Ok most of these are not 6th gen fighters but 5th or maybe 5.5 gen. The German, French and spanish one might not even be 5th gen but like a 4.8 gen.

Man, you really won't get disappointed in Russia when it comes to aesthetics for its fighter jets.

Where is 6th generation AMCA MK2?

Just visually speaking, I like the look of the BAE & NGAD

Looking at the Bae System at a glance is like looking at their Avro Vulcan bomber

Russia can't even afford the SU-57,how could it build one of these things?

Russia’s wish list that it can’t afford.

I think they are missing a system engineering approach. Designing for a specific desire functionality or requirement. For example, the A-10 warthog was design around its weapon. F117 was also design for stealth. There needs to be a design aircraft for a Laser Weapon or even a Rail Gun as Gas Turbine Jet Engineer get more efficient to provide the required power requirements. These weapon at some point won't need the plane to be "pointed" toward the target but able to do hypersonic maneuvers to avoid being hit and advance "fire/targeted predetection."

The USA 6th generation fighters why because the US is the only country to have two 5th generation fighters designed and built in its borders while other countries have not but one 5th generation plane design by their own country Also the F-22 and F-35 Stealth technology actually works unlike the su-57 that has alot of problems with its stealth technology making it more of a 4.5 then a true 5 gen Also you got to love Is Chinese propaganda with there J-28 that with the laser can cut ICBM in half So basically I am saying that mostly likely country to build and Produce 6 gen fighter is the good old US of A

It'll all come down to a direct energy weapon on an autonomous unmanned stealthy flying hypersonic missels. The first to do that wins.

The tempest is going to dominate all of these things when it comes to speed lol