[Red Badger]

“We’ve already built and flown a full-scale flight demonstrator in the real world, and we broke records in doing it,” Will Roper told Defense News in an exclusive interview ahead of the Air Force Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference. “We are ready to go and build the next-generation aircraft in a way that has never happened before.”

https://www.defensenews.com/breaking-news/2020/09/15/the-us-air-force-has-built-and-flown-a-mysterious-full-scale-prototype-of-its-future-fighter-jet/

[Mariner]

That was an enlightening article from Defense News.

Game Changer.

[ckilmer]

probably lots of ai went into the design & prototyping. if that’s true, then they will learn to design to spec for every battle space