F-22 Raptor and F-15 Eagle.
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Su-57 Felon To Enter Service With Elite Russian Air Force Unit
A historic unit in Russia's Far East will be first to receive Su-57 fighters, but until then, its Su-35s are fighting in the war in Ukraine.
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Duke Nukem
Hail to the king baby
Sexy.
Technically a Bomber. But yeah Suck it China and Russia.
I meant 6th gen aircraft nit fighter my bad
Been more funny if they replaced Britain with Germany.
It’s already tremendously funny that they keep calling it sixth generation just because it’s newer than F-22 / F-35, even though there aren’t any breakthrough capabilities that set it apart from fifth generation stealth.
It’s as if Northrop had called the Hornet "fifth generation" simply because it was newer than the fourth generation Tomcat.
It’s as if Northrop had called the Hornet "fifth generation" simply because it was newer than the fourth generation Tomcat.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
Sixth generation presumably is going to focus more on computing stuff as compared to generation 5 whose main thing was stealth
No, what makes it Sixth gen is that is sets forth future capabilities that are still currently classified on it.
We know it has better stealth then that of all current aircraft, is more capable then the B2 in all but capacity of what it carries.
We know nothing of the sort, because it doesn’t actually exist yet, and the British R&D establishment has a well earned reputation for making grand promises and delivering mediocre at best results. In all likelihood, the Tempest will have better stealth capabilities than PAK FA and J-10 but only on par with F-35 and inferior to those of the F-22, much less NGAD.
TheRejectionist
TheRejectionist
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
With at least 5 other prototypes in varying stages of construction. Albeit I suspect much like was the case with the B-2 one of those will be put through destructive tests on the ground to see what the frame can truly handle. BTW that's how the national museum of the airforce has a b-2 on display its the one they broke in that stage of testing carefully put back together from a external look POV
Then you are about a week behind the times; it was just rolled out for the first time publicly.
So it's in full production already.
PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
They already put it into production without having even a test flight? And I thought the Soviets were terrible with pushing designs that had not been sufficiently tested into production.
Jokes aside, this the first of six prototypes. There will be extensive testing and aircraft will enter production once most of the encountered problems are dealt with.
gral
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Fighter 'generations' have become meaningless qualifiers, used for marketing teams to try to convince people 'ours is better than the competitor's'.