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America Scrapped Plans for Its Secret Stealth Fighter—But Has Something Even More Fearsome in the Works

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Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program is meant to create the world’s first sixth -generation fighter.

The Air Force is consulting with the “primes” in the program to determine the best way to move the program forward.

The NGAD program reboot is an example of how the slow, complicated development of modern warplanes is at odds with the breakneck pace of technological progress, which threatens to lock out even the newest aircraft from state-of-the-art features.

To unlock the full potential of Collaborative Combat Aircraft , the Air Force must figure out how to best take advantage of the attributes that uncrewed and crewed aircraft each bring to the fight.

NGAD may be the most important conventional weapons program of the early 21st century .

The rapid development of new technologies means that a jet that takes 1520 years to develop can miss out on key tech developed after the aircraft’s parameters are set in stone.