Lieutenant General of the Military Air Force (Air Force), Clinton Hinot revealed new details about the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, which is intended, in particular, the creation of a sixth generation fighter. On the benefits of the developed platform tells the Drive.
Lieutenant-General hinted that the second air prototype NGAD can already be done.
According to Hinot, the development of the platform will go on a spiral, on each turn of which aircraft created within the program will receive new features. It is expected that the platform update will occur with a period of five to eight years.
It is assumed that NGAD products will combine manned and unmanned aerial vehicles, and the latter will have to strengthen the possibilities of the first.
The publication assumes that the sixth generation fighter glider developed under this program will be performed according to a unborn aerodynamic scheme.
Hinot said that the sixth generation fighter NGAD can replace F-22 Raptor in the 2030s.
In May The Drive wrote that the US Air Force is planned to develop the F-15EX Eagle II aircraft park, F-16 Fighting Falcon and F-35 Lightning II, as well as NGAD, but can get rid of others, in particular, the fighter Fifth generation F-22 Raptor.
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 the sixth generation fighter.