China’s Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) recently unveiled the White Emperor, or Baidi, at the China ...

The high cost of the NGAD program—$300 million per airframe, more than three times the F-35’s cost per plane—has put it on shaky ground. Initially touted as the next generation in U.S. air combat ...

multi-agency X-plane program paved the way for NGAD by demonstrating new technologies for the 6th gen aircraft and its family of systems. The program was part of “The Dominance Initiative ...

The plans for the NGAD aircraft, also sometimes referred to ... we would be… thinking too narrowly about what kind of airplane we need in a highly contested environment,” then-Air Force ...

The plans for the NGAD aircraft, also sometimes referred to as the Penetrating ... we would be… thinking too narrowly about what kind of airplane we need in a highly contested environment,” then-Air ...

“It is still very much a part of our future.” NGAD has often been described as a ‘family of systems’ centred around a crewed sixth-gen fighter and unmanned collaborative combat aircraft (CCA).

"[In 1909] Goodyear developed the first pneumatic aircraft tire, which replaced the runners and bicycle tires on pioneer airplanes like the Wright Flyer," the company said. It wasn’t until 1983 ...

The designs of all three of these new programs—NGAS, NGAD, and CCAs—are tied together ... creating uncertainty around the service’s next-gen aircraft programs. Funding the Space Force ...

Investigators were at the crash site on Wednesday, and more were expected to arrive Thursday to "begin the process of documenting the scene and examining the aircraft." The plane will later be ...

The last ones were taken by AAron Maurer (@maurer8photography on Instagram) on Nov. 7, 2024, as a Raider bomber, accompanied by an F-16 chase plane ... CCAs and manned NGAD aircraft.