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Summary and Key Points on GCAP Fighter Delivery Date News: -Japan’s Ministry of Defense has formalized the 2035 service entry for the Global Combat...
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Summary and Key Points on GCAP Fighter Delivery Date News: -Japan’s Ministry of Defense has formalized the 2035 service entry for the Global Combat...
Summary and Key Points: Building two stealthy sixth-generation fighters in parallel—F-47 and F/A-XX—would strain a U.S. industrial base that has consolidated into a handful...
Summary and Key Points on the Air Force’s Stealth ‘Gap’ Problem: A new Mitchell Institute report warns that current Pentagon plans for 185 F-47s...
Summary and Key Points: The Franco-German Future Combat Air System (FCAS) is “on the verge of collapse” due to missed critical deadlines for work-sharing...
Summary and Key Points: The Mitchell Institute’s latest report, “Strategic Attack: Maintaining the Air Force’s Capacity to Deny Enemy Sanctuaries,” calls for doubling the...
Summary and Key Points: America’s F-47 is billed as the centerpiece of NGAD: longer range, sharper stealth, and the ability to command loyal-wingman drones....
Summary and Key Points: At roughly $300 million per jet, F-47 NGAD fighter costs are expected to climb as adaptive engines, modular bays, cockpit...
Summary and Key Points: The F-47 NGAD is being framed as a Mach 2+ sixth-generation fighter with supercruise, long range, and the ability to...
Summary and Key Points: China’s J-20 family is becoming a production story as much as a capability story. Estimates cited from RUSI suggest the...
Summary and Key Points: A private firm is promoting a sixth-generation concept jet called the SM-39 Razor, marketed as an air-dominance fighter/interceptor with all-weather...