Faster, deadlier, ‘armed with drones and lasers’: US Air Force just flew its 6th generation fighter

poornima lagadapati

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The new leap forward in air power is not just about a single plane that is more advanced, but in fact reimagines an entire new system that includes both unmanned and piloted planes.

The US Air Force has “built and flown a full-scale flight demonstrator in the real world”, Defense News quoted the US Air Force’s head of acquisition Will Roper as sayingAlso known as the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter, the 6th generation fighters would follow the F-22 stealth jet, a fifth-generation fighterBoeing and Lockheed (makers of the F-22) are both believed to be in the running to develop sixth-generation fighters, which are being described as “the most complicated systems that have ever been built”
The next-generation fighter jet secretly built and tested by the US Air Force has been flown for the first time, media reports say.

The news of the so-called 6th generation fighters, which are far superior to anything the world has seen so far, was first broken by Defense News this week.
 
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