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Synopsis and Key Points: The U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX program, designed to replace the aging F/A-18E/F Super Hornet in the 2030s, has stalled to the...
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Synopsis and Key Points: The U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX program, designed to replace the aging F/A-18E/F Super Hornet in the 2030s, has stalled to the...
Key Points and Summary – The Air Force’s F-47 NGAD could cost as much as $300 million per jet—far above the “F-35-like” price leaders...
Key Points and Summary – Congress has gutted funding for the Navy’s F/A-XX program, cutting FY2026 support to just $74 million while fully backing...
Key Points and Summary – Congress has gutted the U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter program, approving just $74 million for FY 2026—an 84 percent...
Key Points and Summary – Congress has slashed funding for the Navy’s F/A-XX 6th-generation carrier fighter by 84 percent in the 2026 NDAA, signaling...
Key Points and Summary – The Pacific theater’s “tyranny of distance” will define whether the Navy’s sixth-generation F/A-XX succeeds or fails. -With Chinese DF-26...
Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Navy’s future F/A-XX fighter is being designed to solve the hardest problem in Pacific warfighting: how to...
More information has been released in recent days about the F-47, with progress on the program seemingly going as planned. Unfortunately, the U.S. Navy’s...
A confrontation seems imminent over the fate of the upcoming F/A-XX naval fighter jet, with planners in Congress and the U.S. Navy on one...
The F/A-XX Drama: It is a peculiar feature of American defense politics that the most critical capabilities are often developed not in times of...