{"id":105104,"date":"2020-09-16T07:49:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T11:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=105104"},"modified":"2020-09-15T22:49:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T02:49:52","slug":"the-us-air-force-has-built-and-flown-a-mysterious-full-scale-prototype-of-its-future-fighter-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105104","title":{"rendered":"The US Air Force has built and flown a mysterious full-scale prototype of its future fighter jet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Concept art released by the the Air Force Research Lab in 2018 shows a potential next-generation fighter concept, or F-X. (Air Force Research Laboratory photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Air Force’s top acquisition official told Defense News they’ve built and flown a full scale demonstrator for the next generation fighter.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. Air Force has secretly designed, built and flown at least one prototype of\u00a0its enigmatic next-generation fighter jet, the service\u2019s top acquisition official confirmed to Defense News on Sept. 14.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The development is certain to shock the defense community, which last saw the first flight of an experimental fighter during the battle for the Joint Strike Fighter contract 20 years ago. With the Air Force\u2019s future fighter program still in its infancy, the rollout and successful first flight of a demonstrator was not expected for years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve already built and flown a full-scale flight demonstrator in the real world, and we broke records in doing it,\u201d Will Roper told Defense News in an exclusive interview ahead of the\u00a0Air Force Association\u2019s Air, Space and Cyber Conference. \u201cWe are ready to go and build the next-generation aircraft in a way that has never happened before.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Almost every detail about the aircraft itself will remain a mystery due to the classification of the Next Generation Air Dominance program, the Air Force\u2019s effort for fielding a family of connected air warfare systems that could include fighters, drones and other networked platforms in space or the cyber realm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It seems as if the Air Force learned from the open, public, messy development of the F-35 and is going to play this one closer to the chest. They’ve also got the next generation bomber, the B-21 Raider, in development as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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