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First Pictures of the Next Generation of Jet Fighters

Posted by EU Times on Jul 31st, 2011 // 2 Comments

US Air Force chief scientist Mark Mayberry briefed the AirVenture symposium on the future of electric flight this morning, allowing your blogger the pleasure of one of our favorite games: Spot the funny-looking aircraft on the AFRL briefing slides! Hey, it’s one way to survive death-by-PowerPoint.

1. F-X is the new name for the USAF’s very preliminary programme (see this story) to replace the Lockheed Martin F-22, and here’s the picture that Mayberry used to illustrate it. I haven’t seen this one before. Can anybody place it?

2. Boeing’s well-publicized concept design for a next generation air dominance fighter, another F-X candidate, illustrated the slide about the INVENT programme (see more on this here).

3. We’re pretty sure we’ve seen this on AFRL slides before, but here it was labeled a “fractionated and survivable” unmanned aircraft system (UAS) in Mayberry’s presentation. Perhaps an early concept for MQ-X?

4. We all know about the Long Range Strike (LRS) programme, but were you aware there is apparently an “LRSII” and “LRSIII” programme?

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2 Responses to " First Pictures of the Next Generation of Jet Fighters "

1%china says:

03/08/2011 at 13:39

it is joke.f-35 is pareparing for iran. you gain or you loss,show us.

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Cactuar says:

01/08/2011 at 12:13

How many will be booted into tent shanties?

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