Sixth Generation Fighter Jet ?

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Future fighter aircraft: contractors slate sixth-generation concepts
24 May 2019

Defence companies and governments are still ironing out issues with fifth-generation fighter aircraft, but some contractors are already looking to the defence aviation solutions of the future. What concepts for sixth-generation fighter jets have been put forward and what are some of their potential capabilities?

https://www.airforce-technology.com/features/future-fighter-aircraft-sixth-generation/

What to Expect from Sixth-Gen Aircraft
9/16/2019

The United States and several European nations are pursuing next-generation fighters. While many details are closely held or are still being fleshed out, a picture is starting to emerge of the capabilities they will possess.

A mockup of a Franco-German-Spanish stealth jet, part of the Future Combat Air System, or FCAS, was unveiled at the Paris Air Show in June. It came about a year after the United Kingdom displayed a model of a Tempest platform at the Farnborough Air Show. Across the Atlantic, the U.S. Air Force and Navy are planning to develop their own “next-generation air dominance” capabilities.

Survivability against sophisticated enemy air defenses is expected to be a key requirement of sixth-generation systems that might have to square off against advanced adversaries such as China or Russia.

https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2019/9/16/what-to-expect-from-sixth-gen-aircraft

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From: The National Interest

The 1 Thing That Could Crush a Sixth-Generation Stealth Fighter - September 14, 2019

In the last few years, several countries have seemingly committed themselves to developing a new sixth-generation of manned jet fighters to succeed today’s fifth-generation stealth fighters, like the F-35 Lightning and the Chinese J-20.

Russia and Japan are interested in interceptors, such as Japan’s Mitsubishi F-3 and Russia’s MiG-41. In Europe, the interest is in a multi-role fighter—notably France and Germany’s Next-Generation Fighter, part of a broader Future Combat Air System (FCAS), and the UK’s Tempest project. These will theoretically enter service in the late 2030s or 2040s.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/1-thing-could-crush-sixth-generation-stealth-fighter-80726


Explained: Why 6th Generation Fighters Will Crush the F-35 and F-22 - October 11, 2019

Key point: Although the F-35 is now online, researchers and engineers are already planned the next stealth fighter.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/explained-why-6th-generation-fighters-will-crush-f-35-and-f-22-87216


Will The Navy's 6th Generation Fighter Jet Be The End Of the U.S. F-35 and F-22? - October 12, 2019

Key point: The Next-Generation Air Dominance program has moved to the prototype stage.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/will-navys-6th-generation-fighter-jet-be-end-us-f-35-and-f-22-87396


The F-35 Is the Past: Air Force's 6th-Generation Fighter Will Be a Everything - October 15, 2019

Key Point: While the notion of “manned” hypersonic flight is considered to be very far away, hypersonic weapons - to be followed by hypersonic drones - are moving closer to operational status. And they could be the weapons carried by the successor to the F-35.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/f-35-past-air-forces-6th-generation-fighter-will-be-everything-88146


Forget the F-35: China Will Fear America's 6th Generation Fighter - October 29, 2019

Key point: The military is already working on what comes next and it will be much more advanced than the F-35.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/forget-f-35-china-will-fear-americas-6th-generation-fighter-91701

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See also:
* U.S 6th Generation fighter jets program
* UK's Tempest sixth-generation fighter programme

From Popular Mechanics

'Sixth Generation' Fighters Jets Are Already Taking Shape - Mar 27, 2017


Boeing's new sixth generation design. Via Aviation Week & Space Technology.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/forget-f-35-tempest-could-be-future-armed-lasers-hypersonic-missiles-and-swarms-26441


Image: Britain's defence minister, Gavin Wiliamson (UNSEEN), unveiled a model of a new jet fighter, called 'Tempest' at the Farnborough Airshow, in Farnborough, Britain July 16, 2018. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/File Photo