Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has completed a critical assessment of its Next-Generation Adaptive Propulsion (NGAP) offering with the U.S. Air Force, moving the program closer to completing its detailed design review. The team is now working towards ground testing of its NGAP prototype, referred to as XA103, which is expected to …
Youtuber Pilot Photog describes new mirror coatings on some new Navy F-35C stealth fighters. This is being used to achieve greater stealth against new infrared sensors used on Russian and Chinese planes. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is …
Lockheed Martin has a video ad for 80 years of Skunkwork projects which includes a drawing of a tailless fighter design. The tailless fighter is being used for the NGAD (next generation air dominance) 6th generation fighter. The new ad has the tailless manned tactical jet concept. It look like the design of the Next …
There was a secret billion dollar US Air Force, DARPA and Navy X-plane program to explore future fighters that paved the way for the Next-Generation Air Dominance program, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall revealed at the POLITICO Defense Summit on Nov. 14. Kendall and other Air Force officials have previously said there were flying prototypes …
The F-35As have critical failures every 11 flight hours and airframe-only (excluding engines and systems) maintenance is 4.4 man-hours per flight hour. The US air force is trying to fly its F35s from 250-316 hours each year. This would mean 1100-1400 hours each year on airframe maintenance and more hours on engines and systems. Each …
Before Russia’s war with Ukraine started about 2 years ago, Russia and Putin bragged about their new hypersonic missiles (Kinzhal) and its new SU-57 stealth fighter. The new weapons were supposed to be unstoppable. Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 21 October 2023. Find out more about Defence Intelligence's use of …
In 2024, the US Air Force will select the vendor the sixth generation NGAD (Next Generation Air Dominance) fighter and the either GE or Pratt & Whitney for the ATEP engine (Adaptive Engine Transition Program). The Air Force last year awarded contracts worth nearly $1 billion each to aircraft manufacturers Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop …
Youtuber Pilot Photog has renderings of the likely look of the US Navy’s planned F/A-XX 6th generation stealth fighter. The reason Pilot Photog can be quite confident that the F/A-XX will look like this is that a blended wing body (BWB) design. The BWB is what will be used for the Air Force NGAD (Next …