The US Air Force’s desire to radically reshape and accelerate the way it develops future fighter planes could propel China to ramp up its plans for next-generation aircraft, Chinese experts said. A military insider familiar […]
The U.S. Air Force published a concept art for a fighter aircraft being built under the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) project intended to include both crewed and uncrewed aircraft. In its biennial report for […]
Disagreements over intellectual property rights mean Germany, France and Spain have yet to agree the next steps for a joint fighter jet project, the defense ministry in Berlin said on Saturday after a deadline to […]
Lockheed Martin Corp, the maker of the F-35 stealth jet, will join a project led by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) to build a new fighter plane that Japan’s air force is expected to field by […]
The companies building the UK’s Tempest sixth-generation fighter aircraft have revealed some of the technological concepts that it will incorporate, including a radar system designed to handle as much data per second as a city. Under development […]
The UK’s Team Tempest group has outlined the financial and employment benefits of the nation’s future combat air system (FCAS) project, as it prepares to submit an outline business case proposal to advance the effort. […]
Britain’s new Tempest warplane will support 20,000 jobs for a quarter of a century, many of them in less wealthy parts of the country, BAE Systems Plc said as it set out the economic benefits of […]
The US Air Force has secretly designed, built and flown a full-scale demonstrator aircraft that is part of its Next Generation Air Dominance programme. Defense News reports that the service has secretly designed, built, and […]
The Navy has “quietly initiated work” to develop a sixth-generation carrier-based fighter to replace the multirole F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and the electronic attack EA-18G Growler sometime in the 2030s as part of the service’s Next […]
BAE Systems has unveiled the digital techniques that are being used to design Britain’s Tempest sixth-generation fighter jet. By using a combination of computer-simulated digital twins and 3D-printed models, the goal is to simplify and speed up […]
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