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F-47 NGAD: A tailless aircraft was photographed over Area 51 at night — and it’s probably America’s next fighter

The grainy photos show a tailless shape with canards slipping through the Nevada night, and the internet reached for aliens. Aviation experts reached for something else: a demonstrator whose design ...
The National Interest

NGAD vs. F/A-XX: Which Is the Better Fighter?

Following its development in 2019, the NGAD program is being shaped to represent a “portfolio of technologies enabling air superiority.” When the sixth-generation family of systems reaches operational ...
AOL

First US sixth-gen fighter jet will be the F-47, Trump says, and Boeing, not Lockheed, is going to build it

A US Air Force F-22 Raptor, soon to be replaced by the Next Generation Air Dominance fighter.US Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Stefan Alvarez The way forward for the US Air Force's mysterious ...
NextBigFuture

F-47 Next Generation Fighter Starts Production – Dawn of 6th Gen NGAD

On September 22, 2025, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin said Boeing has started making the first F-47 airframes under the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program. This is the start ...

The Hidden Engineering Problem Facing Every 6th-Generation Fighter Program

The incredibly high electrical power needs of the powerplants and electronic systems on board next-gen fighter jets will ...