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Whoever designed the software that they are using for this digital design, engineering and testing is a mad genius. Generally with advanced CAD/CAM stuff you can quite easily make the design, even to high degrees of detail. We've been doing that for years at this point. This software goes way...

The eT-7A Red Hawk is the new trainer for the air force, comprising a complete system for all air training needs (past primary training, which is still in a prop job IIRC). Here's where things really get interesting. The eT-7A was picked as the winner of the contest as a clean sheet design...

A few more data points. Turns out the 3 year turnaround for the eT-7A Red Hawk (note that the Air Force is adding the lower-case e to the prefix of any 'digitally designed' craft until they hit IOC) is a bit misleading, the first 2 years were spent purely dealing with bureaucracy and finalizing...

The thing is, those Nighthawk flights? They only were identified as such *based on callsigns*. So those might well have been the new NGAD birds flying. Considering that Boeing evidently proved out the system with the Red Hawk, I'm thinking Phantom Works is involved, perhaps in conjunction...

The T-7 Red Hawk is an early example of the methods they are talking about, and it went from paper concept to flight in 3 years, and will be entering service next year at the latest. *five* years total. This is a massive game changer, the Air Force is talking about returning to the development...

According to Defense News the USAF has already built and flown... in under a year... a full-scale prototype 'with mission equipment' of the Next-Generation Air Defense fighter. Under. A. Year. It took the F-35 a decade to reach this same milestone in development. Everybody else is...