Mysterious Full-Scale Prototype of Brand-New Fighter Jet Reportedly Flown by US Air Force

11:25 23/1/2021 - Πηγή: Armynow

Addressing the US Air Force Association’s main annual symposium at the end of 2020, acquisition chief Will Roper touted a new era where rapid design and experimentation of new aircraft, including the ‘manufacturing’ and ‘flight testing’ of them will take place primarily

in the digital realm.

In a bombshell revelation, the US Air Force claims to have secretly designed, built, and mission-tested a new prototype fighter jet – something that most observers did not expect to happen for another decade.

“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,” Will Roper, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (SAF AQ), was cited as saying by Defense News.

A Sixth-Generation fighter aircraft may have already taken flight.
Assistant Secretary of the US Air Force for Acquisitions, Will Roper recently announced that a prototype Next Generation jet has already taken flight.
This is part of the US Air Force’s NGAD program. pic.twitter.com/aovKTfKMT6

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