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America Scrapped Plans for Its Secret Stealth Fighter—But Has Something Even More Fearsome in the Works
A new plane with new tech is necessary to dominate current and future Russian and Chinese fighters, top officials say.
The NGAD program reboot is an example of how the slow, complicated development of modern warplanes is at odds with the breakneck pace of technological progress, which in turn threatens to lock out even the newest aircraft from state-of-the-art features. A Next Generation Air Dominance fighter “will likely have greater range, carry larger weapon payloads, [have] more advanced sensors and information fusion systems, and all-aspect, wide-band stealth needed to maintain overmatch against [China’s] increasingly sophisticated counter-air forces,” Gunzinger says. This long development period meant the jet needed technology updates almost immediately, including processor upgrades, new internal cooling systems to deal with heat buildup, a video data link, and the ability to carry new weapons.
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