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This is SDI 2.0 territory but will likely go even further. For some of these plans to work, the Outer Space Treaty will have to be abandoned in the next decade, which will then allow space-based interceptors and militarization of space.
Also: While GOP lawmakers have proposed

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for the project in fiscal year 2025, Sheehy offered a stark assessment of the program’s true scale: “It will not be a $25 billion or $35 billion project. It will likely cost in the trillions if and when Golden Dome is completed.”

 

[siegecrossbow]

Unnamed DoD official grudgingly admits that J-20 is good.

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“Anybody know what happened with the F-35?” Arrington asked the audience during a keynote presentation at TechNet Cyber in Baltimore. “What took off about six months after the F-35 that had the exact same candidate clause as the original design of the F-35? The J-20. They [China] didn’t get good on their own. They got good on your tax dollars. They got good on your R&D [research and development.] They got good on the blood of your men and women on the battlefield. Are you willing to let them do that anymore?”

 

[SlothmanAllen]

Some interesting claims regarding the F-47 from General David Allvin the Chief of Staff for the US Air Force.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922357672487080412

1000nm+ range is in line with what people were expecting, but I what I think is most interesting that the graphic he shared is that the F-47 is expected to be operational by 2029 at the latest. I am guessing in reality this likely means flight testing will be taking place by 2029.

 

[siegecrossbow]

Some interesting claims regarding the F-47 from General David Allvin the Chief of Staff for the US Air Force.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922357672487080412

1000nm+ range is in line with what people were expecting, but I what I think is most interesting that the graphic he shared is that the F-47 is expected to be operational by 2029 at the latest. I am guessing in reality this likely means flight testing will be taking place by 2029.

This whole thing is just amateurish at best. The CCA with a single vertical slab and external carry gets the same “stealth” rating as F-35…

 

[Tomboy]

This whole thing is just amateurish at best. The CCA with a single vertical slab and external carry gets the same “stealth” rating as F-35…

Why did they even go with a single vertical stabilizer in the first place, I can't imagine it'll be too hard or expensive to put a V tail on it

 

[siegecrossbow]

Why did they even go with a single vertical stabilizer in the first place, I can't imagine it'll be too hard or expensive to put a V tail on it

They don’t want it to be expensive. If it is too sophisticated and expensive it defeats the purpose.

 

[CaribouTruth]

US Navy's new fighter jet threatened by funding dispute, sources say​

The Navy had been expected to announce a winner as early as

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in a deal that could be worth hundreds of billions of dollars to the winner over its lifetime, but a funding dispute threatens to derail that timeline.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's cost assessment office plans to slash funding for the next-generation jet's development by shifting the $454 million that Congress provided for the F/A-XX in the fiscal year 2025 budget to other programs, according to two industry executives and a congressional aide familiar with the matter.

A three-year delay for the Navy would effectively cancel the program as it is currently defined, the people said, because contracts and pricing would expire during that time making a new competition almost inevitable.

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[siegecrossbow]

US Navy's new fighter jet threatened by funding dispute, sources say​

The Navy had been expected to announce a winner as early as

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in a deal that could be worth hundreds of billions of dollars to the winner over its lifetime, but a funding dispute threatens to derail that timeline.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's cost assessment office plans to slash funding for the next-generation jet's development by shifting the $454 million that Congress provided for the F/A-XX in the fiscal year 2025 budget to other programs, according to two industry executives and a congressional aide familiar with the matter.

A three-year delay for the Navy would effectively cancel the program as it is currently defined, the people said, because contracts and pricing would expire during that time making a new competition almost inevitable.

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If Trump sold the Qatari 747 they can cover like half of the cost.

 

[burritocannon]

mounting evidence the us is not winning the race for 6thgen.

 

[johncliu88]

Pentagon Review Threatens E-7A Acquisition Plan​

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