The Air Force's sixth-gen NGAD fighter continues to face an uncertain future with the Trump Administration's decision still ...

Both engines use adaptive technologies that would allow an NGAD aircraft to adjust to the ideal thrust configuration for its situation, providing greater range and thermal management capability ...

Credit: U.S. Air Force AURORA, Colorado—Top U.S. Air Force officials are increasing their public push for the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter months after the program was placed on ...

As a “family of systems,” NGAD is expected to include a manned sixth-generation stealth fighter and a mass of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCAs) that will serve the jets as loyal drone wingmen.

But the Air Force has currently put the NGAD program on hold as it examines the exact capabilities it is looking to get out of the new aircraft. Although the Air Force has put the Next Generation ...

“Bluntly, what this study told us, we tried a whole bunch of different options and there was no more viable option than NGAD to achieve air superiority in this highly contested environment,” Ma ...

A new U.S. Air Force analysis recommends continuing the development of NGAD, as well as terminating the NGAS stealth tanker program which was supposed to support the next gen fighter in contested ...

While the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter and Next-Generation Air Refueling System (NGAS) tanker are seemingly independent capabilities, their fates became intertwined in the ...

The development follows American efforts to build a similar capability. In 2020, US officials disclosed that a demonstrator aircraft for the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) programme was already ...