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The U.S. Air Force Publishes Concept For NGAD Project AKA Sixth-Gen Fighter
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Defense Industry
Germany, France, Spain To Sign FCAS Agreement Next Week
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 […]
East Asia and Pacific Region
Lockheed Martin to Join Japan’s Sixth-generation Fighter Project
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 […]
Air Platform
UK’s Tempest Fighter To Get A Brand New AESA Radar
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 […]
Air Platform
Tempest Partners Detailed Progress On Six-generation Tempest Fighter
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. […]
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British Tempest Fighter To Create 20000 Jobs In UK
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 […]
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USAF secretly built and flew six generation fighter demonstrator
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 […]
Naval Platforms
U.S. Navy Going Ahead with Sixth-generation F/A-XX Fighter Jet
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 […]
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BAE Systems developed digital twin and 3D printing techniques for Tempest fighter
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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British Tempest Fighter Could Be The Most Advanced Six-Generation Fighters In Europe
The U.K.’s sixth-generation fighter jet could be powered by electricity instead of jet fuel. That’s the word from BAE Systems, the lead contractor on the Tempest fighter, which has left open the possibility the aircraft […]