Star wars fighters.
Outrun? Obama strategy?
Tentatively named the F-36 and will cost $6 billion per plane.
I very much support Defense, but they need to spend money smarter. They would be fine with a reduced budget: they just need to stop spending money on stupid stuff. Acquisitions is badly broken.
Who is paying for that?
“A supersonic, flying wing fighter will likely require smaller missiles, or rely on directed energy weapons like a high energy laser to minimize internal payload volume,” the second official said.
Star Wars fighter indeed.
How about to destroy them instead so they won’t even know you are there?....................
“The Chinese Chengdu J-20 and the Russian Sukhoi T-50 PAK-FA are becoming a real threat to the US Air Force and Navy, according to The National Interest, an international affairs magazine.”
It’s still debatable as to what degree either of those 2 “fighters” qualify as 5th Generation since we can’t really know their low-observable characteristics. But what is known is that neither of those planes is as close to actual serial production as the F-35 for all its flaws. Those planes are still closer to prototypes than fighters. Let’s see if either actually reaches production.
They will cost a trillion dollars each and be ready for their first test flight in 2045.
What we mostly need is a 6th Generation Commander in Chief that will confront our enemies.
Yes, perhaps they should develop an F-22.
Based on the F35 timeline, these planes should be going operational about 2050. I can’t wait that long.
The US Air Force is a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin.
Why do you read Sputnik News? It is Russian propaganda. You can’t trust them to report accurately as their purpose is to say “Russia very strong. America is a dying beast” and to make people take a stand that is harmful to their country. They will always insert their lies into their articles. Articles might be even technically correct, but are still meant to lie by what they choose to emphasize or omit.
Here is an example from a real article from RT.
1. US military is spending a lot of money on drones
2. College students spent $2000 in materials to take control of a drone with a laptop
Both of these claims were technically correct, but RT omitted the fact that the drone students took control of was a simple one from toy store and not a military one and the fact it can be done was not a surprise to anyone. All this talk about military was inserted to make people think that military budget is worthless and be against it.