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

Popular Mechanics ^ | 9/16/2020 | KYLE MIZOKAMI

[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.

[griffin]

This is so advanced, wouldn’t this be a 4D drawing? Or maybe it’s so advanced we can’t see it.

[Herakles]

And the name of the new jet is “737 Max” and has the capability of superseding pilot commands. The only problem is that it flies into the ground evading enemy attack.

[PIF]

turns out that all the design, manufacture and flight was all digital ... what may have flown were bits and pieces to teat out various aspects on a totally different platform built just to test, but looking nothing like the final concept

"As such, it is very unlikely that NGAD is a 'new fighter' as many have extrapolated it to be. Instead, it will be a system of platforms and underlying shared technologies that will work together seamlessly to break the enemy's decision cycle and dominate future air wars."

It is about radically changing the entire process of arriving at and maintaining air superiority into the future

The Air Force's Secret Next Gen Air Dominance Demonstrator Isn't What You Think It Is
Like the future of air combat in general, there are lots of misconceptions about the secret technology demonstrator and the program it belongs to.
By Tyler Rogoway September 21, 2020