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Re: Caccia di sesta generazione

Messaggio da richelieu » 13 novembre 2016, 10:26

A margine e ..... guardando al futuro .....
..... - piloti ..... + robots ..... :transformer:

Immagine
The US military has a well-known shortage of pilots - a problem that is exacerbated by aging legacy aircraft that require at least two people in the cockpit - but the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency may have a solution on the way.
DARPA is making headway on two different concepts for robotic copilots that would be able to autonomously operate aircraft and offer advice to the human pilot onboard.
In October, the two defense contractors developing those systems, Aurora Flight Sciences and Sikorksy, conducted a series of flight demonstrations ahead of a downselect to a single vendor for the program’s third and final phase.
The impetus behind the Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program is to develop a system that can reduce the number of crew onboard manned platforms, going “from two pilots down to one, and then possibly down to zero,” explained Jean Charles-Lede, program manager of DARPA’s tactical technology program office, during a recent briefing.
Fonte ..... "DARPA Banks on Robot Copilots to Help Quell Military Pilot Shortage" .....
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Messaggio da richelieu » 9 gennaio 2017, 10:40

Laser per i caccia di prossima generazione ..... l' USAF si muove .....
The US Air Force (USAF) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) related to its efforts to field a laser-based self-protection system for its tactical combat aircraft.
The RFP, posted by the Air Force Research Laboratory, Directed Energy Directorate, Laser Division (AFRL/RDL) on the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) website on 5 January, seeks research proposals for the service's Laser Advancements for Next-generation Compact Environments (LANCE) project, which is geared at integrating a defensive laser weapon aboard current and future fighter-sized aircraft.
Fonte: Jane's (328 of 614 words) ..... "USAF issues RFP for fighter aircraft laser weapon" .....

FedBizOpps ..... "Laser Advancements for Next-generation Compact Environments (LANCE)" .....
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Messaggio da richelieu » 27 febbraio 2017, 15:53

Prima del PCA potrebbe entrare in servizio il PEA .....
​Gen. Hawk Carlisle thinks the Air Force’s nascent Penetrating Electronic Attack aircraft may actually go operational before the Penetrating Counter-Air platform that will notionally succeed or complement the F-22 and F-35 in the air superiority role.
The Air Combat Command chief, speaking with defense reporters on Friday, said the PEA, which he described as a “partnership platform” with the F-22, F-35, and B-21 bomber, could be “autonomous or semi-autonomous” and escort strike aircraft going into the most heavily defended enemy airspace as a stand-in jammer.
Fonte: AFA ....."Penetrating Electronic Attack May Come Before Counter-Air Platform" .....
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PCA ..... lo vogliono presto ..... anche a pezzi e bocconi ..... :shock:
The US Air Force could field its Penetrating Counterair platform on a fast track, according to the service’s head of Air Combat Command.
The USAF will likely purchase its next standoff aircraft in batches and add capabilities along the way, rather than wait for years for an exquisite aircraft, Lt Gen Mike Holmes told reporters 29 March.
The service is already working with Congress to figure out what authorities would allow the air force to field a prototype and complete a fly-off, instead of a longer engineering, manufacturing and development process, Holmes says.
“If we did it the way we bought the F-22 and the F-35, it would still be 25 years away and I just don’t want to wait that long,” Holmes says.
“That’s why we’re talking about doing a different acquisition model where we’ll buy probably more than 100, but some number of a version and see how those do and see what’s available and see if we want to add something in the next round.”
Fonte: FlightGlobal ..... "Air Combat Commander hints at rapid acquisition for new standoff aircraft" .....

Una soluzione peggiore della tanto criticata 'concurrency' ?
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Messaggio da richelieu » 22 luglio 2017, 17:33

NGAD (Next Generation Air Dominance) .....
Sembra che ora la Marina USA sappia veramente che velivolo vuole ..... e si stia orientado, in modo particolare, su velocità e raggio d' azione .....
The Navy is knee deep in an analysis on how best to replace its Super Hornet and Growler aircraft.
Though much work is still left to be done, the resulting platform could look a lot different than both those jets, with a much higher priority on range and speed.
The service kicked off its “Next Generation Air Dominance” analysis of alternatives in January 2016 to study potential replacements for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and E/A-18G Growler.
(Confusingly, the Air Force has used the NGAD term to describe its own analysis of alternatives for an F-22 follow-on aircraft, but the services’ efforts are not connected and there are no plans to pursue a joint fighter).
Now, after about a year and a half, the Navy team feels they have a complete understanding of what capabilities the future carrier strike group needs to have and, importantly, what threats it will face, Capt. Richard Brophy, who is working the AoA effort as part of the service’s air warfare division, said during a panel at the Office of Naval Research’s science and technology expo.
Fonte: DefenseNews ..... "Speed and range could be key for Navy's next fighter jet" .....
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LM ha ricevuto un contratto che prevede la messa a punto di un' arma laser sperimentale installabile su un aereo da caccia .....
Lockheed Martin has received a $26.3 million contract to develop and produce a laser than can be tested on a fighter jet by 2021.
The initiative will see Lockheed develop a high power fiber laser as part of US Air Force's Research Lab's Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) programme, says Lockheed in a statement (*).
Fonte: flightglobal.com ..... "Lockheed to develop experimental laser for fighters" .....

(*) ... "Lockheed Martin Receives Contract to Develop Compact Airborne High Energy Laser Capabilities" ...
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Messaggio da richelieu » 23 novembre 2017, 9:36

NGAD ..... siamo al "Vorrei ..... ma (almeno per ora) non posso" ..... :mrgreen:
The US Air Force will need to replicate funding levels not seen since President Ronald Reagan's military spending build-up in the early 1980s in order to make its next-generation air dominance (NGAD) concept a reality, the head of Air Combat Command says this week.
The service has a solid grasp of what it would take to guarantee control of the air after finishing its 2030 air superiority study last spring, which assessed its limitations against future airpower threats.
What the USAF is still struggling with is where to find the dollars to fund its next ambitious acquisition programme.
“I don’t see a shortcut to doing it,” Gen Mike Holmes says.
“Whatever path you choose, to go after maintaining that air superiority option, it’s going to cost about the same as it did 30 years ago.”
Fonte: flightglobal.com ..... "USAF needs Reagan-level dollars for penetrating counterair platform" .....
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Messaggio da richelieu » 15 dicembre 2017, 17:34

Lo posto in questa discussione ..... ma, in realtà, non so se sia quella giusta ..... perchè non ho la benché minima idea di cosa quel 'coso' possa essere .....

..... https://twitter.com/hashtag/PhantomWorks?src=hash .....

L' unica cosa certa è che Boeing, fra pochi giorni, ci farà una sorpresa ..... :santa:

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Messaggio da richelieu » 26 febbraio 2018, 16:34

Ulteriori passi verso il caccia di nuova generazione .....
U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, armed with the biggest infusion of cash for research and development the service has seen in years, is looking to pivot from the counterterrorism fight in the Middle East to preparing for a potential clash with China.
Key to that effort will be investing in maintaining air and space superiority as new threats emerge, Wilson said Feb. 21 during an interview ahead of the Air Force Association’s annual air warfare symposium here.
In particular, the Air Force is spending $2.7 billion more than planned over the next five years (almost $10 billion in total) to accelerate “Next Generation Air Dominance” (NGAD), a family of systems designed to ensure air superiority well into the century.
The effort likely will include a next-generation fighter to replace the F-22, F-35, or both.
Fonte: aviationweek.com ..... "USAF Speeds Next-Gen Fighter Family, With Eye Toward China" .....
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Dal Daily Report dell' AFA del 7 Marzo 2018 .....
USAF Buying Back Sixth Generation Development .....

The Air Force’s Fiscal 2019 budget request contains a big jump in funding to develop next-generation air dominance, or a sixth generation air superiority system, Lt. Gen. Jerry Harris, the deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and requirements, said Tuesday.
The Fiscal 2019 budget request, released last month, shows “we put a ton of money back in, but that’s money pilfered” from previous budgets where the service was forced to fund current operations over long-term planning.
“All we’ve done is put it back,” Harris said.
The Air Force’s Fiscal 2019 budget request calls for $504 million in research, development, test, and evaluation for Next Generation Air Dominance.
This is up from $294.7 million in Fiscal 2018.
This funding will dramatically increase to $1.4 billion in Fiscal 2020 and $2 billion the year after.
The next generation of air superiority is not going to just be an airborne platform, it will also need to work with space assets and sensors that are “not typically associated with an air vehicle,” Harris said.
This also needs to be coupled with development of new weapons, because the Air Force “can’t continue to shoot fourth generation weapons off fifth and six generation” aircraft, Harris said.

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Opera di contenimento .....
The Aircraft and Weapons division chief with the US Air Force Cost Analysis Agency has made a series of suggestions in a research paper for keeping the price of a sixth generation fighter down after analysing a myriad of cost-overruns by the B-2, F-22 and F-35 programmes.
A reoccurring theme throughout many of the suggested measures is a need for the USAF to maintain a disciplined focus on a narrow set of unchanging priorities for their next generation fighter.
The research paper was presented at an International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association workshop in June 2018.
One suggestion is that the USAF develop their next aircraft by focusing on one major item at a time and then incrementally adding other system upgrades – an approach that has worked on previous aircraft programmes.
Fonte: flightglobal.com ..... "USAF analyst suggests ways to avoid cost overruns on 6th-gen fighter" .....
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Dopo il contratto destinato alla realizzazione di motori di nuova generazione assegnato il 29 Giugno a GE .....
General Electric Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, has been awarded a $437,032,792 cost-plus-incentive-fee modification (P00029) to contract FA8626-16-2138 for designing, fabricating, integrating, and testing complete, flight-weight adaptive engines.
The contract modification is for the execution of next generation adaptive propulsion risk reduction for air superiority applications.
Work will be performed in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is expected to be completed by March 30, 2022.
Fiscal 2018 research and development funds in the amount of $25,566,999 are being obligated at the time of award.
Total cumulative face value of the contract is $1,449,920,786.
Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, is the contracting activity.
..... il 7 Settembre ne è stato assegnato uno analogo a UTC-P&W .....
United Technologies Corp., East Hartford, Connecticut, has been awarded a $436,688,397 cost-plus-incentive-fee modification (P00027) to contract FA8626-16-2139 for designing, fabricating, integrating, and testing complete, flight-weight adaptive engines.
The contract modification is for the execution of next generation adaptive propulsion risk reduction for air superiority applications.
Work will be performed in East Hartford, Connecticut, and is expected to be completed by Feb. 28, 2022.
Fiscal 2018 research and development funds in the amount of $10,000,000 are being obligated at the time of award.
Total cumulative face value of the contract is $1,449,687,297.
Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, is the contracting activity.
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Messaggio da richelieu » 8 ottobre 2018, 12:13

Dopo le celebrazioni a base di champagne per la vittoria nella competizione T-X ..... quale sara' il successivo passo di Boeing nel settore militare ?
..... because a far bigger competition looms: a sixth-generation fighter
That will require in-house engineering savvy not shown by Boeing in decades.
Boeing’s last serious attempt to design and produce a clean-sheet combat aircraft all on its own was the large-mouthed X-32.
Fonte ..... https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... pr-452492/ .....

Una cosa e' certa ..... dovranno affilarsi bene i denti per riuscire ad avere una qualche possibilita' di vincere .....
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Non collaboreranno ...
After developing the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lighting II together, the US Navy (USN) and the US Air Force (USAF) are parting ways.
The USN’s next-generation fighter won’t be jointly developed with the USAF.
That’s because the USN does not plan to use its Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) aircraft on penetration missions in highly-contested air space as the USAF aims to do with its next-generation fighter, says Angie Knappenberger, USN deputy director of air warfare, at the Navy League Sea-Air-Space conference in National Harbor, Maryland.
... flightglobal.com ... "Future US Navy fighter will not be joint effort with USAF" ...

E lo credo bene ... con tutto quello che è successo col programma JSF ... è il meno che potessero fare ... :mrgreen:
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Messaggio da richelieu » 13 maggio 2019, 23:58

Combattimento aereo ravvicinato e intelligenza artificiale ... la DARPA lancia la ricerca ...
The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to launch a competition to teach artificial intelligence (AI) software programmes how to control aircraft and their weapons in dogfights.
The research agency sees the competition as the first step in developing software that would automate air-to-air combat.
AI-controlled fighter aircraft could react faster in combat and free up pilots to spend more time managing a larger air battle, says DARPA.
Ultimately, the Air Combat Evolution (ACE) programme aims to develop AI dogfighting software programs that are reliable and trusted enough by pilots to take over air-to-air combat.
... flightglobal.com ... "DARPA to launch competition for AI-powered aircraft dogfighting" ...

... darpa.mil ... "Training AI to Win a Dogfight" ...
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Messaggio da richelieu » 16 settembre 2019, 19:24

NGAD ... in servizio più presto di quanto previsto ?
The U.S. Air Force is preparing to radically alter the acquisition strategy for its next generation of fighter jets, with a new plan that could require industry to design, develop and produce a new fighter in five years or less.
On Oct. 1, the service will officially reshape its next-generation fighter program, known as Next Generation Air Dominance, or NGAD, Will Roper, the Air Force’s acquisition executive, said during an exclusive interview with Defense News.
Under a new office headed by a yet-unnamed program manager, the NGAD program will adopt a rapid approach to developing small batches of fighters with multiple companies, much like the Century Series of aircraft built in the 1950s, Roper said.
“Based on what industry thinks they can do and what my team will tell me, we will need to set a cadence of how fast we think we build a new airplane from scratch. Right now, my estimate is five years. I may be wrong,” he said.
“I’m hoping we can get faster than that — I think that will be insufficient in the long term [to meet future threats] — but five years is so much better than where we are now with normal acquisition.”
defensenews.com ... "The US Air Force’s radical plan for a future fighter could field a jet in 5 years"

In precedenza: airforcemag.com ... " Holmes: What ACC Expects from New “Century Series” "

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Digital Century Series” ... nominato un colonnello quale dirigente del nuovo "Program Executive Office for Advanced Aircraft" ...
The Air Force has established a new program executive office, led by a colonel, to transform the Next-Generation Air Dominance program and produce capabilities that replace or complement the F-22 and F-35 in their air superiority role.
The new “Advanced Aircraft” organization launched Oct. 2 at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, in a ceremony overseen by Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper.
The new office will pursue what Roper has described as a “Digital Century Series” approach, which emphasizes rapid design, fielding, and replacement of small-batch, advanced aircraft with short life spans.
Roper said the Digital Century Series will use agile software development, digital engineering, and open-system, modular architecture to swiftly design new aircraft and enter production with a significantly lower learning curve.
He argues each advanced platform could be fielded in as little as four or five years.
Col. Dale White, previously the program executive officer for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, and special operations forces, will serve as the Advanced Aircraft PEO.

... airforcemag.com ... "Air Force Creates New PEO for NGAD, Applying “Digital Century Series” Idea" ...

Anche qui ... wpafb.af.mil ... "Air Force stands up new Advanced Aircraft PEO" ...

E qui ... "defensenews.com ... US Air Force’s next-generation fighter inches forward with a new program head" ...

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Messaggio da richelieu » 4 ottobre 2019, 10:01

Digital Century Series” ... il commento di FlightGlobal ...

... "USAF sets up advanced fighter technology office" ...

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Messaggio da richelieu » 6 ottobre 2019, 0:31

Digital Century Series” ... un commento, non privo di scetticismo, da aerosociety.com ...

... "21st Century Boyd's – US goes back to the future" ...

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NGAD ... il Congresso, prima di sganciare i quattrini, vuole risposte ...
The House Armed Services Committee wants to limit the amount of money the Air Force and Navy get for their respective sixth-generation fighter programs until it gets some answers.
The Navy and Air Force are leading separate efforts to develop a follow-on fighter jet to the F-35, with both services calling their programs “Next Generation Air Dominance.”
Both projects are in the early stages of development, with the services hoping to ramp up activities this year.
But HASC intends to fence off 85 percent of the fiscal 2021 funding requested for the NGAD until the committee receives an independent review performed by the Pentagon’s director of cost assessment and program evaluation, according to the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee’s markup of the FY21 defense policy bill.

... defensenews.com ... "Congress has questions about the Air Force’s and Navy’s next-generation fighter programs" ...

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La Marina USA rompe gli indugi ...
After nearly a decade of fits and starts, the Navy has quietly initiated work to develop its first new carrier-based fighter in almost 20 years, standing up a new program office and holding early discussions with industry, USNI News has learned.
The multi-billion-dollar effort to replace the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and electronic attack EA-18G Growlers beginning in the 2030s is taking early steps to quickly develop a new manned fighter to extend the reach of the carrier air wing and bring new relevance to the Navy’s fleet of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.
Navy acquisition chief James Geurts told reporters last week that the service created a program office for the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) initiative.
“We’re working to outline that program and the acquisition approach and all that as we speak,” Geurts said.

... news.usni.org ... "Navy Quietly Starts Development of Next-Generation Carrier Fighter; Plans Call for Manned, Long-Range Aircraft" ...

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Messaggio da richelieu » 2 settembre 2020, 16:03

Dalla Russia ...

... tass.com ... Russia may develop 6th-generation fighter jet under MiG-Sukhoi brand ...

Rimanendo in trepidante attesa che venga introdotto in servizio il caccia di quinta generazione ... :mrgreen:

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Next Generation Fighter ... la rivelazione bomba di Will Roper ... :shock:
The U.S. Air Force has secretly designed, built and flown at least one prototype of its enigmatic next-generation fighter jet, the service’s top acquisition official confirmed to Defense News on Sept. 14.
The development is certain to shock the defense community, which last saw the first flight of an experimental fighter during the battle for the Joint Strike Fighter contract 20 years ago.
With the Air Force’s future fighter program still in its infancy, the rollout and successful first flight of a demonstrator was not expected for years.
“We’ve already built and flown a full-scale flight demonstrator in the real world, and we broke records in doing it,” Will Roper told Defense News in an exclusive interview ahead of the Air Force Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference.
“We are ready to go and build the next-generation aircraft in a way that has never happened before.”
Almost every detail about the aircraft itself will remain a mystery due to the classification of the Next Generation Air Dominance program, the Air Force’s effort for fielding a family of connected air warfare systems that could include fighters, drones and other networked platforms in space or the cyber realm.
Roper declined to comment on how many prototype aircraft have been flown or which defense contractors manufactured them.
He wouldn’t say when or where the first flight occurred.
And he refused to divulge any aspect of the aircraft’s design — its mission, whether it was uncrewed or optionally crewed, whether it could fly at hypersonic speeds or if it has stealth characteristics.

... defensenews.com ... The US Air Force has built and flown a mysterious full-scale prototype of its future fighter jet ...

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Come il sito dell'AFA riporta la notizia ...
The Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance combat aircraft, intended to complement or succeed the F-22 and F-35 in the air superiority role, has already flown, having been rapidly prototyped through modern digital design, Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper revealed Sept. 15.
Roper made the revelation at the end of a talk at AFA’s virtual Air, Space & Cyber Conference in which he said the Air Force is at an inflection point in how it will master future uncertainty.
Making an analogy to the choice facing the main character in the movie “The Matrix,” the Air Force can “choose the red pill” and accept a new reality and new ways of buying the equipment it needs, or do things the old-fashioned way - taking the “blue pill” - and “lose,” Roper said.
In the movie, the main character can choose to “wake up” from an elaborate illusion to a harsh reality, or continue in the illusion, which is comforting but false and self-defeating.
He declined to give further details about the NGAD flights, except to say the aircraft has “broken a lot of records.”
In a press conference after his presentation, Roper said he was able to win approval only to reveal the flights, without giving away program details or discussing the aircraft’s performance, in order to reassure stakeholders inside and outside the Air Force that digital engineering is producing “real things…in the real world.”
He declined to say, for example, whether the aircraft was competitively developed, what companies were involved, or whether it will be produced in its present form.

... airforcemag.com ... Roper Reveals NGAD Has Flown, But Doesn’t Share Details ...

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Messaggio da charter » 20 settembre 2020, 22:02

La cosa interessante, e secondo me corretta, è che il Pentagono ha abbandonato l'idea di un caccia singolo che possa essere utilizzato per tutto e tutti, come l' F-35 per intenderci. Infatti l' F-35, un aereo assolutamente rivoluzionario, è stato purtroppo "rovinato" dal fatto che, essendo stato progettato per essere operato da USAF, USMC, USNavy e sostituire dall' F-16 all' A10 è diventato una specie di costosissima, complicatissima e, a volte, pericolossissima Cenerentola!
Quindi la USNavy vorrebbe un nuovo F-14 (visto che il successore dell' F-18, in teoria, è l' F-35), l'USAFuna versione riveduta dell' F-22.
Poi non ho capito bene la solita, vergognosa divisione tutta Europea: l'Italia con Gran Bretagna e Svezia per il "Tempest" e la Francia con la Germania e la Spagna per lo "FCAS", destinato a sostituire Typhoon, Raphale, F-18. Tanto perchè esiste l' EU...

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charter ha scritto:
20 settembre 2020, 22:02
Poi non ho capito bene la solita, vergognosa divisione tutta Europea: l'Italia con Gran Bretagna e Svezia per il "Tempest" e la Francia con la Germania e la Spagna per lo "FCAS", destinato a sostituire Typhoon, Raphale, F-18. Tanto perchè esiste l' EU ...
In Europa sono decenni che le cose vanno così ... da AFVG, Tornado e Tifone ... #-o
I Galli non vogliono essere secondi a nessuno ...

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Re: Caccia di sesta generazione

Messaggio da richelieu » 21 settembre 2020, 10:28

GE XA100 e XA101 ... se la loro sperimentazione andrà a buon fine ... saranno questi i motori che verranno utilizzati sui futuri caccia di sesta generazione americani ?

... aviationweek.com ... Going With The Flow: The U.S. Air Force’s New Adaptive Powerplants ...

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L'esortazione del CNO ... "La Marina dovrebbe muoversi più velocemente nel programma NGAD" ...
The Navy has to move quicker in its development and fielding of a sixth-generation fighter, the service’s top uniformed officer said Tuesday.
Speaking at a virtual forum hosted by Defense One, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday emphasized that the service cannot afford to move at the same pace it did when developing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Lighting II.
“We can’t wait until 2045 or 2050 to field the next manned aircraft, if that’s what we think is required. We also have to come to grips with what is required: what do we think the future’s going to hold if we continue to develop and invest in weapons that are more precise and that have range and that, one would argue, will be doing fewer air-to-air combat type of scenarios?” Gilday said.

news.usni.orgCNO Gilday: Navy Must Move Faster on Next Generation Air Dominance Program

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Re: Caccia di sesta generazione

Messaggio da richelieu » 14 ottobre 2020, 21:03

Quando, giusto un mese fa, venne annunciata l'esistenza di un dimostratore segreto del caccia di 6^ generazione americano, vi fu chi esaminò le capacità tecnologiche dei vari produttori aerospaziali d'oltreoceano per tentare di capire quale di loro avesse realizzato l'oggetto misterioso ... 

... defenseone.com ... https://www.defenseone.com/business/202 ... er/168541/ ...

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Re: Caccia di sesta generazione

Messaggio da richelieu » 6 marzo 2021, 12:09

Secondo Jane's ...
The United States may field a new fighter aircraft type by fiscal year (FY) 2029, according to a related contract notification posted on 4 March (*).
The contract awarded to Raytheon for AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) aircraft integration support lists several aircraft types that carry the system, before expanding its remit to potentially include those existing types that do not, as well as a type or types that have yet to enter into service.

janes.comUS may field new fighter by FY 2029

(*) ... vedasi alla voce AIR FORCE ... https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contra ... e/2525209/ ...
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The Air Force and Navy are working together on the Next-Generation Air Dominance program, and the Navy version has a good chance of being unmanned, said Rear Adm. Gregory Harris, the Navy’s director of air warfare, during a Navy League virtual event March 30.
NGAD will be a family of systems for both the Air Force and Navy, and the centerpiece of the Navy variant will be the FA-XX, an aircraft that will succeed the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, Harris said.

airforcemag.comNavy, Air Force Team on New Fighter as Navy Aims for 50 Percent Robot Jets
The Navy is leaning toward replacing its fleet of Super Hornets with another manned fighter that will work with emerging unmanned aircraft concepts under the umbrella of the service’s Next Generation Air Dominance program.
Rear Adm. Gregory Harris, who leads the chief of naval operation’s air warfare directorate (OPNAV N98), said Tuesday that the aircraft following the Super Hornets will “most likely be manned,” but that the Next Generation Air Dominance program will include a mix of both manned and unmanned platforms.

news.usni.orgNavy: NGAD Will be Family of Systems, Super Hornet Replacement Likely a Manned Fighter

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Re: Caccia di sesta generazione

Messaggio da richelieu » 19 aprile 2021, 11:35

Questa immagine rappresenta veramente quello che sarà il caccia americano di sesta generazione (NGAD) o si tratta soltanto di una sottile operazione di disinformazione ?

Immagine
The US Air Force has revealed concept art of its new fighter jet that was designed, built and tested in secret.
Last September, USAF’s top acquisition official, Will Roper, told Defense News: “We’ve already built and flown a full-scale flight demonstrator in the real world, and we broke records in doing it. We are ready to go and build the next-generation aircraft in a way that has never happened before.”
The new plane, which is intended to replace the F-22, is part of the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) programme and built by Lockheed Martin.
Little is known about the jet, but the Air Force has just dropped a massive clue: concept art of a fighter jet being built under the NGAD programme.
The image appears in USAF’s recently released biennial report for acquisition.

aero-mag.comUS Air Force just revealed a first look at its new fighter jet

Anche qui … theaviationist.comNew Concept Art Of The Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) Featured In Air Force Report

E qui … popularmechanics.comThis Is Our First Look at the Air Force’s Secret New Fighter Jet

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La RAF ha intenzione di collaborare con l'USAF mettendo a confronto i risultati dei test del "Future Combat Air System" con quelli del "Next-Generation Air Dominance" ...
The United Kingdom Royal Air Force is looking to make concrete progress over the next four years on its Future Combat Air System next-generation fighter jet and is reaching out for opportunities to test and compare its progress with the U.S. Air Force’s Next-Generation Air Dominance program.
The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense in March released its “Defence in a competitive age” document outlining its strategy for modernization and future competition, including a $2.4 billion investment over the next four years on FCAS.
Royal Air Force boss Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston, speaking April 27 during a virtual Hudson Institute event, said this funding will go toward developing a demonstrator, with the “big decision” on design to follow.
The RAF’s goal is to have FCAS lined up in the late 2030s to be able to phase out the Eurofighter Typhoon fleet for air defense alert, with the RAF’s F-35s flying much of the rest of the mission set.
FCAS will be both piloted and unpiloted, with “swarms” of drones to assist.
Because of this timeline, Wigston said he looks forward to working with USAF on comparing progress with the NGAD system, which already has a demonstrator that flew last year.
Additionally, the RAF wants to work alongside and compete with the French and German next-generation fighter jet initiative.
“There’s an opportunity to feed off each other, to test each other,” Wigston said.

airforcemag.comUK Planning Big Steps in Future Fighter Development, Wants to Work With USAF’s NGAD

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Re: Caccia di sesta generazione

Messaggio da richelieu » 14 maggio 2021, 12:51

Una volta ritirato il Raptor ... lo NGAD sarà il cuore della Fighter Force dell'USAF ...
The Air Force is preparing to unveil a new 30-year fighter force design that includes at least two all-new fighters, a much greater use of autonomous and unmanned aircraft, a new way of providing close air support, and a narrowing timeline for retiring aircraft such as the A-10, F-16, and F-22, said Lt. Gen. Clinton S. Hinote, deputy chief of staff for strategy, integration, and requirements.
Hinote said the F-22 will begin to phase out in about 2030 - the exact timeline will be situation-dependent - and the Next-Generation Air Dominance fighter will be needed soon to defeat a Chinese stealth aircraft and missile threat that is “closer than we think.”
In a May 13 interview with the editors of Air Force Magazine, Hinote said Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr.’s revelation that the USAF is planning to reduce its fighter fleet from seven types to “four plus one” is the kickoff of a “transparency” campaign to explain choices to be unveiled in the fiscal 2022 budget submission.
Brown said the future fighter fleet will include the F-35, F-15EX, late-model F-16s, and the Next Generation Air Dominance, or NGAD family of systems; the “plus one” being the A-10.
Brown did not mention the F-22, and “this was something you all rightly picked up on very quickly,” Hinote said.
The Air Force plans a “transition” from the F-22 to the NGAD, and “we felt like, now is a good time for us to be able to talk about how we’re going to bridge” between the two systems.

airforcemag.comNew Force Design: NGAD Needed Soon, F-22 Sunset Begins in 2030

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