It’s crazy for you to assume that you have intimate details about USA’s NGAD.
I don’t know and you don’t know.
Difference is, I admit it.
If I were in charge of USA’s NGAD, I would abandon efforts to develop a manned 6th generation fighter (there is some open source evidence that this actually took place in 2020). But, for sure, something else is happening certainly outside of your view. And mine. Unless, of course, you believe the USA is comprised of dithering idiots with their thumbs stuck in a dark place.
Unmanned vehicles guided by a mother ship like the super stealthy B21 are a possibility. A very interesting possibility.
Unmanned hypersonic vehicles doing the work of fighters would be cheaper, much more maneuverable, less mechanically complex, and can be made smaller and in numbers. And of course save tons of time.
The Chinese 6th gen fighters are expensive, unproven, require pilot training, and come with other disadvantages that unmanned fighters don’t or will not have. One public test flight made for end of year geewhizbang chest-pounding and publicity does not convince me.
Like many naval vessels, they will in the future be, in my own personal view, DOA. This may explain why the USA does not seem to be going all out to develop them. |
