Future of NGAD Uncertain: Air Force May Shift Fighter Jet Strategy" America’s next stealth fighter, slated to replace the F-22 Raptor by the close of this decade, may no longer be a sure thing ...

As a “family of systems,” NGAD is expected to include a manned sixth-generation stealth fighter and a mass of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCAs) that will serve the jets as loyal drone wingmen.

According to Secretary Frank Kendall, the service’s plans surrounding its Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program remain on pause leading up to the incoming Trump administration and the ...

The Debrief: Hypersonic Bomber Emerges As Office’s Next Goal After NGAD is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is ...

But the Air Force has currently put the NGAD program on hold as it examines the exact capabilities it is looking to get out of the new aircraft. Although the Air Force has put the Next Generation ...

In American speak, that translates into something called for now Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD). The project dates back to more than a decade ago, when a new plane was imagined as a ...

China’s newest fighter jet emerged as a talking point at an American defence conference this week, with US Air Force officials showing more urgency to get their own version of a sixth-generation ...

Credit: U.S. Air Force AURORA, Colorado—Top U.S. Air Force officials are increasing their public push for the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter months after the program was placed on ...

“Bluntly, what this study told us, we tried a whole bunch of different options and there was no more viable option than NGAD to achieve air superiority in this highly contested environment,” Ma ...

Both engines use adaptive technologies that would allow an NGAD aircraft to adjust to the ideal thrust configuration for its situation, providing greater range and thermal management capability ...