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US to Develop 6th Generation Fighters to Outrun Russian, Chinese Jets
The US Air Force and Navy plan to pursue the development and acquisition of sixth-generation F/A-XX fighters; they consider the fleet of existing jets incapable of handling their Russian and Chinese fifth-generation counterparts, something which they feel constitutes a real threat to national security. The Chinese Chengdu J-20 and the Russian Sukhoi T-50 PAK-FA are becoming a real threat to the US Air Force and Navy, according to The National Interest, an international affairs magazine. “When… (www.aviationnews.eu) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
This article is a joke.
I suspect speed and stealth are somewhat mutually exclusive.
How fast does a plane have to be to shoot someone off the back of a camel? All I see is dollar signs and all I hear is Ca-Ching, ca-ching.... hey, it's only money, right? I do have a solution, but no one will listen. Let's discount the F-35 and sell it the Russians and Chinese..... that should put us way out in front...
You are correct in that no one, at least no one that can do anything, listening, but your solution is a good one. Problem is, you'd really about have to give the F35 away. I doubt anybody would pay anything for it.
Well we don't want it up north here, no matter how much arm twisting you do.
The U.S. Navy's CNO recently said that stealth is over-rated and that high speed just makes an aircraft easier to detect using IR sensors. He also said that no matter how fast an aircraft flies, it can't outrun a missile, so the headline for the article immediately makes me question its content.