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The US website “Defense News” said that the US has built a prototype fighter plane and tested it by air, which belongs to a new generation of fighters.
The announcement was made by the head of acquisitions of the Air Force of the United States, Will Roper, who confirmed the presence of the new fighter within the project NGAD or “future project of air dominance”.
Roper told “Defense News”: “We have built and tested the aircraft by air on the ground, and we broke records during that. We are ready to go ahead and build the next generation fighter in a way that has never been done before.”
The site indicated that details about the plane are still kept confidential due to the secrecy of the NGAD program, and Roper declined to reveal the number of planes that have been air-tested or have already been manufactured.
However, Roper explained that the importance of the new aircraft lies in the fact that just one year after the completion of the aircraft alternatives analysis, the US Air Force has shown that it can use advanced manufacturing techniques to Build and test a virtual version of your future combat.
“We are looking to build the most complex systems yet and we have completed all the tasks related to digital technology, and we never have, but we have created something truly magical,” added Roper.
The “Defense News” website stated that the new combat program will “shake up the defense industries” by purchasing the NGAD product from the Air Force, and that it will provide competition for aircraft programs such as the “F-35” aircraft. and “F-15-FX”.
In the event that the aircraft is adopted by the Pentagon, it will belong to the sixth generation of fighters, which surpasses the fifth generation to which the two American fighters (F-22 and F-35) belong, in terms of capabilities.
According to the National Defense magazine website, sixth-generation fighters will be distinguished by being more stealthy and hidden from radars compared to their fifth-generation counterparts, as they will feature more complex sensors than their predecessors, in addition to speed. Of flight.
