The U.S. Air Force Starts Planning A Sixth-Generation Fighter

Northrop Grumman's sixth-generation fighter concept

Yasmin Tadjdeh, National Defense: Military Eyes Sixth-Generation Fighter

As key Air Force and Navy fighter jets — such as the F-22 Raptor and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet — face the end of their service lives in the 2030s, work is being done in earnest by the two services to field a new fighter.

The sixth-generation fighter, as it has been called, is still largely conceptual. While the services have ideas about some requirements and industry has already begun distributing artist renditions of potential aircraft, a formal program is still years away.

Sterling Anderson, deputy chief of Air Combat Command’s air superiority core function team, told National Defense that the Air Force already has a few capabilities in mind.

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WNU Editor: I am willing to bet that I will be dead and buried by the time they have this fighter operational (I am 55 years old).

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