US Navy 6th Gen Fighter - F/A-XX

Jacky said:
F/A-XX is also very critical. Because Chinese Navy will have J-35 soon.

You misunderstood my meaning. Investment does not mean waste. Looking back at the problems encountered with CVN-78, and looking at the fact that CVN-79 is once again facing delivery delays. The utilization rate of funds is too low. The Type 003 aircraft carrier also uses a lot of new technologies for the Chinese Navy, but the time from the beginning of construction to the sea trial of the Type 003 aircraft carrier is obviously less than that of CVN-78. Looking back at history, the current annual budget of the Navy is about the same as that of the early 1970s (taking inflation into account), but it is obvious that the Navy did more in the 1970s than it does now. This is what I call the utilization rate of funds.

If reform is to be carried out, I think the first step is to re-establish an independent BuShip department to be responsible for ship design, while restoring the construction capabilities of the naval shipyard.
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Im sorry yeah I see what you mean. I think tthe CVN program is what the GWOT era of military procurement felt like. Id say at least some of the tech that went into the ford wasnt totally mature at the time.

Right now im guessing the navy just has tio many stumbling blocks to choke on thanks to decades of neglect
 
dark sidius said:
Fore Sure we saw what the past administration do , nothing for new fighters. Kendall was unable to chose something or push any program for air dominance. Today we have the F-47 contract , and a Futur F-55 based on the work on the F-35, surely if you look in SkunkWorks you surely be surprise , Lockheed is very capable to do that and surely they done the work on this F-35 evolution since a lot.
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This is happening a lot today, but I've read this twice and don't know what you are saying. Are you suggesting F-47 only exists thanks to the current administration, and that his announcement of a non-LO twin-engine F-35 variant named F-55 makes sense because....Skunkworks?
 

The F/A-XX is a strike fighter with a secondary air dominance role.
It replaces the F/A-18E, not the F-35C.
It will use derivatives of existing engines.
The Navy requires the F/A-XX to have range greater than 25% more than the F/A-18E with external tanks. The Navy has published the range requirement.
The F/A-XX will be supersonic.
The F/A-XX will, eventually, team with Navy unmanned aircraft.
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F/A-XX threatened, F-35 no good because single engined and stealth... which we're not a huge fan of apparently?
I can think of another naval strike fighter that's twin engined and has less stealth... let's call it the F/A-18E/F Block IV. That's a mouthful, F-55 is better. o_O
 
eagle said:
F/A-XX threatened, F-35 no good because single engined and stealth... which we're not a huge fan of apparently?
I can think of another naval strike fighter that's twin engined and has less stealth... let's call it the F/A-18E/F Block IV. That's a mouthful, F-55 is better. o_O
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Hey, he said he loves the F-22.

So NATF-22 is back on the menu (obviously a joke).

I personally like the idea/opinion some others have raised on this forum that he probably meant a twin engine jet better than the F-35 and that he's essentially referring to F/A-XX (or he forgot that NGAD was already named F-47 and not F-55).
 
EmoBirb said:
Hey, he said he loves the F-22.

So NATF-22 is back on the menu (obviously a joke).

I personally like the idea/opinion some others have raised on this forum that he probably meant a twin engine jet better than the F-35 and that he's essentially referring to F/A-XX (or he forgot that NGAD was already named F-47 and not F-55).
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God forbid someone gets DoD to clarify or confirm that “F-55” was a reference to F/A-XX
 
quellish said:
It’s a strike fighter. It replaces the Super Hornet. The Navy has been clear about that.

It is not an F-14.
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You’re totally correct - but I can see why there’s so much confusion over the F/A XX.

The USN has the F/A-18 Strike Fighter, and has been introducing the F-35 (no /A!) Strike Fighter to its CAG.

It has a new programme - to introduce ANOTHER Strike Fighter to its ranks… this time with an F/A designation again.

People might rightly be confused, and wonder “What the F, or F/A, is going on?”

All that aside, with its given range, the F/A-XX should be well able to do CAP duties, if required.
 
quellish said:
I don’t get tired.

I get resilient.

I also don’t watch fake or poorly researched YouTube videos to “inform” or entertain me. I watch Lords of Acid concert videos and write very long appeals for FOIA requests that cite DoD regulations and a large body of case law, then forward everything to all the members of the legislature who have sent me “WTF?” emails about how their money is being spent by DOD.

The problem with threads like this is that known facts are ignored and few people are asking the right questions in the right places. And those that are publishing YouTube videos etc are creating a culture where sharing information is negatively reinforced.
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It’s a pity that we can’t have ‘sticky posts’ that will appear as the top post of every thread - and pages in that thread - with bright lights surrounding, and insistent text font.
 
siegecrossbow said:
Rare instance where I understood every individual word spoken but have no clue what the speaker is trying to convey.
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www.defensenews.com

Pentagon silent, aviation experts baffled by Trump’s fighter comments

“President Trump appears to have been speculating out loud about future airplanes that, as far as I know, don’t exist," said former SECAF Frank Kendall.
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Frank Kendall, the secretary of the Air Force during former President Joe Biden’s administration, said in an interview with Defense News that it is unclear what Trump was referring to when he discussed an “F-22 Super,” but it may have been a reference to the F-47 sixth-generation fighter jet.
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