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If it has a pilot, it’s already obsolete. But defense contractors should be able to coax a couple hundred billion out of DoD for the early development, anyway. :)
Sounds like another plane designed to make cronies rich while being way behind schedule and way over budget.
Why?
The last generation of manned combat aircraft is already here.
Who’ll have it in service first the US or China ,LOL
Ping.
So, a realistic delivery date some time in the 2070s, then.
I know nothing about military matters, but for some reason I think the thousands of unmanned drone aircraft of the future that could be developed and purchased for the cost of one of these might be more effective.
The US has not designed or completed a clean sheet of paper fighter in 20 years.
If this goes as well as the F-35 they should have started 10 or more years ago to have it by 2030.
If procurement had been as good in WWII as it is now we’d be goose stepping and eating lots of rice.
Good luck with that.
"The era of dogfighting is largely over," Justin Bronk, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, told the BBC.
'Dogfight Over Syria: US Fighter Shoots Down Russian-Built Warplane,' June 19, 2017.
"Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value." Marshal Ferdinand Foch. July 23, 1960, France launches its second aircraft carrier, ironically named the Foch.