(Luft) Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD)

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Mit einem recht interessanten "Artist Rendering" wie das Ding aussehen könnte. Und - in Anlehnung auch an unsere Diskussion zum "strategischen Mittelstreckenbomber" - es ist ersichtlich, dass NGAD eine Art strategischer Langstrecken-Luftüberlegenheitsjäger werden soll, der vermutlich eben auch taktische Angriffe ausführen können soll...

NGAD: Building sixth generation jet is number 1 priority, USAF says

The US Air Force’s programme for a sixth generation fighter jet and related systems is the number one priority for the service, Air Combat Command chief Mark Kelly has said. Speaking at a virtual event, Kelly said the service’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) programme, which will eventually replace the F-22 Raptor, is his number one requirement. [...]

Speaking at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies event, Kelly added to this that the fighter will be able to operate at long ranges. [...] He added the next generation aircraft is “designed to operate beyond a single spectral band of the RF [radio frequency] spectrum, to thrive in a multispectral environment,” and it also “senses” the battle space and “connects” the rest of the force, so “that I can put [it] in the adversary’s back yard.” In September at this year’s Air, Space & Cyber conference, a top acquisition official revealed the programme is progressing according to plan. [...]

“We do not want to be on the other side of coming in second in air superiority,” Kelly explained. “I would like to have more of a sense of urgency and a whole-of-nation effort towards it,” he said, drawing comparisons to the Manhattan Project that produced the first nuclear bomb in World War II.

https://www.aero-mag.com/next-generation...e-26102021

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