Sixth generation jet fighter

Sixth generation jet fighter

A sixth generation jet fighter is a conceptual airplane expected to enter service in the United States Air Force and United States Navy in 2025–30 timeframe.[1][2]

Design concept

The Boeing concept for Next Generation Air Dominance (formerly F/A-XX) is the only sixth generation jet fighter currently known to be proposed. (Concept image)

As the newly developed Chinese Chengdu J-20 and the Russian-Indian Sukhoi PAK FA are now providing more advanced fighters to compete with current American fifth generation jet fighters, development of a sixth generation jet fighter may be urgent for the US military.[3]

Dubbed the "Next Generation Tactical Aircraft"/"Next Gen TACAIR",[4] the USAF seeks a fighter with "enhanced capabilities in areas such as reach, persistence, survivability, net-centricity, situational awareness, human-system integration and weapons effects," a November 4, 2010 presolicitation notice states. “The future system will have to counter adversaries equipped with next generation advanced electronic attack, sophisticated integrated air defense systems, passive detection, integrated self-protection, directed energy weapons, and cyber attack capabilities. It must be able to operate in the anti-access/area-denial environment that will exist in the 2030–50 timeframe.”[5][6]

The equivalent in the United States Navy is the Next Generation Air Dominance program.

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