US Navy (Navy) As part of the project Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) scheduled in the 2030s to get a replacement fighters F / A-18E / F Super Hornet, writes Popular Mechanics magazine.
According to the publication, the corresponding program can develop in two directions – manotable and unmanned. In the future, this can lead to an increase in aircraft carrier’s impact power, since the number of aircraft on the latter can grow from current 76 to 90. In this case, for every four piloted aircraft there will be six unmanned.
According to the edition of The Drive, NGAD drones can be used for a breakthrough of high-tech air defense systems (air defense) and Russia.
Popular Mechanics and The Drive emphasize that the NGAD NGAD program differs from the same name of the country of the Air Force (Air Force) of the country, although the framework-generated aircraft can combine general technologies, in particular, design principles.
In September 2020, Will Roper, taking an assistant to the procurement of the US Air Force, stated that the Pentagon in terms of secrecy was designed under the NGAD program, built and at least once raised the prototype of the X-aircraft under which it means , in particular, an unmanned or manned aircraft of a new generation, including a sixth generation fighter. According to him, the creation of a H-aircraft was assumed not just the use of a flexible development methodology, open architecture and digital engineering, as was in the case of the US-Swedish reactive educational aircraft ET-7 Red Hawk, and more.