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The Air Force Secretly Designed, Built, and Flew a Brand-New Fighter Jet
Popular Mechanics ^ | 9/16/2020 | KYLE MIZOKAMI

Posted on 09/18/2020 10:40:49 AM PDT by MAGA2017

The Air Force Secretly Designed, Built, and Flew a Brand-New Fighter Jet

And it all happened in just one year. Yes, that's mind-blowing.

The U.S. Air Force revealed this week that it has secretly designed, built, and tested a new prototype fighter jet. The fighter, about which we know virtually nothing, has already flown and “broken records.” (The image above is Air Force concept art from 2018). The Air Force must now consider how it will buy the new fighter as it struggles to acquire everything from intercontinental ballistic missiles to bombers.

The Air Force’s head of acquisition, Will Roper, made the announcement yesterday in an exclusive interview with Defense News, in conjunction with the Air Force Association’s virtual Air, Space, and Cyber Conference.

(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airforce; defense; jet; military
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1 posted on 09/18/2020 10:40:49 AM PDT by MAGA2017
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Frankenjet


2 posted on 09/18/2020 10:41:28 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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I’m sure the Military Industrial complex will figure out a way to make them cost $1B+ apiece.


3 posted on 09/18/2020 10:42:20 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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Call me skeptical, but I highly doubt the Air Force completely designed a new aircraft from scratch, contracted it to be built, built it and then flew it within 12 months. Maybe they did, and maybe it’s want the AF wants some to think.

Either way Popular Mechanics is a leftist publication. I don’t believe half of their articles anyway.


4 posted on 09/18/2020 10:50:01 AM PDT by CodeJockey (Dum Spiro, Pugno)
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My guess is that somebody built a small-scale remote-controlled model (about the size of a Predator drone) and test flew it out of Groom Lake in the last 24 months.
5 posted on 09/18/2020 10:50:09 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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I suspect it was built from existing parts. F-22 here, F-15 here, F-16 here and F-35 there. Half of the most famous weapons of War have come from military member tinkering with existing designs and refining them.


6 posted on 09/18/2020 10:53:46 AM PDT by Trueblackman (Impeachment? Game on B*tches time add my engine to the Trump Train.)
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I was reading some place else that it might just be a piece of technology that set records. I’m sure it’s a prototype of something they’d like to start using by 2030. This is probably put out to freak China out because their 5th generation is really just 3rd or fourth generation fighter compared to the F35 and f22. Their new stealth fighter is a hunk of shit 👍🇺🇸
7 posted on 09/18/2020 10:54:14 AM PDT by BillyCuccio (MAGA)
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Looks a little like “FIREFOX”


8 posted on 09/18/2020 10:56:51 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true.... I have no proof, but they're true.)
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Invisible Man Jet!
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9 posted on 09/18/2020 10:56:52 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (TRUMP, the Other guy lives in a Basement!)
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https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3885077/posts


10 posted on 09/18/2020 10:58:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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They went from concept to prototype in Trump time.


11 posted on 09/18/2020 10:58:58 AM PDT by wattsgnu
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That’s Old School..............The BEST SCHOOL!................


12 posted on 09/18/2020 10:59:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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It was not an operational prototype. It was a technology demonstrator.

It took almost 10 years to go from the YF-22 to the F-22A, and almost 15 years to get from the X-35 to the F-35A, B, and C.

13 posted on 09/18/2020 11:02:35 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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so triangle-shaped UFOs are just Lockheed playing with toys and cloaking? No little green men after all? :)


14 posted on 09/18/2020 11:02:45 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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If Kelly Johnson were alive, I’d believe it. Without him heading it up, not so believable.


15 posted on 09/18/2020 11:09:55 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("And oft conducted by historic truth, We tread the long extent of backward time.")
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Skunk Works strikes again


16 posted on 09/18/2020 11:11:41 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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3rd posting

No one knows anything bout this - could be drone could be piloted; costs unk; manufacture unk; right now just AF hyped vapor-plane without further info.


17 posted on 09/18/2020 11:13:42 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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I searched the web thoroughly and, in some dark, deep recess, found the design drawings.


18 posted on 09/18/2020 11:14:03 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("And oft conducted by historic truth, We tread the long extent of backward time.")
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Hey! Loose lips sink vaporware ships!


19 posted on 09/18/2020 11:15:45 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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If nothing else, it is good psyops against the Chinese.

It is important to create uncertainty in the minds of potential opponents.

20 posted on 09/18/2020 11:46:08 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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