The Air Force’s next-gen fighter has moved into a critical new phase
WEBJun 1, 2022 · WASHINGTON — The Air Force’s secretive and highly classified Next Generation Air Dominance fighter program has started its crucial engineering and manufacturing development phase, Secretary Frank...
AI-powered fighter jet takes Air Force leader for a historic ride | AP News
WEBMay 4, 2024 · An experimental F-16 fighter jet has taken Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on a history-making flight controlled by artificial intelligence and not a human pilot.
How the sixth-generation fighter jet will upend air warfare - Defense News
WEBJul 19, 2024 · Northrop Grumman has touted its B-21 Raider bomber as the first sixth-gen aircraft. In an interview with Defense News before the B-21′s 2022 rollout, a Northrop official said the bomber’s ...
Air Force Finally Has Its First F-15EX: New F-15 Specs, Details
WEBMar 16, 2021 · The U.S. Air Force formally took possession of its first new F-15 Eagle fighter jet in nearly 20 years. The F-15EX will serve as a test and evaluation aircraft as the Air Force continues to...
US sending dozens of new fighter jets to Japan bases in $10 ... - CNN
WEBJul 5, 2024 · The US military will send dozens of its newest fighter jets to Japan as part of a $10 billion upgrade of its forces in the country, the Defense Department announced Wednesday.
What We Know So Far About The U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation …
WEBMay 22, 2023 · The future 5th gen. aircraft was rumored to be a small and agile manned plane, supersonic, long-range, cyber-resilient against threats of the future interconnected world, with morphing metals,...
The US Air Force Is Moving Fast on AI-Piloted Fighter Jets
WEBMar 8, 2023 · On the morning of December 1, 2022, a modified F-16 fighter jet codenamed VISTA X-62A took off from Edwards Air Force Base, roughly 60 miles north of Los Angeles. Over the course of a short...
U.S. Air Force to award sixth-generation fighter contract in 2024
WEBMay 18, 2023 · The U.S. Air Force intends to award a contract in 2024 for its sixth-generation fighter jet as it races to retain its edge against rapid advances in Chinese military technology, the service...
F-15EX Eagle II unveiled as newest fighter - Air Force
WEBApr 7, 2021 · The Air Force’s newest fighter, the F-15EX Eagle II, was revealed and named during a ceremony, April 7, 2021, at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The aircraft will be the first Air Force aircraft to be tested and fielded from beginning to end, through combined developmental and operational tests.
First F-16 Block 70 Jet Makes Maiden Flight - The Aviationist
WEBJan 24, 2023 · The new F-16 Block 70 is the world’s newest and most advanced production F-16. On Jan. 24, 2023, at 09.17AM ET, the first F-16 Block 70 jet carried out its inaugural flight from the Lockheed...
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