exactly … it makes sense to develop a new type
If you mean a brand-new, designed-from-scratch aircraft which is kitted for military applications (and little to nil consideration for civilian operations) - Apparently there has been rumors of such aircrafts (probably as a general-purpose platform for multitude of applications and likely in the Boeing 757-category in terms of size/weight) being in the works(?)
Since this was mentioned by both Adorable Dolphin and Oneninety sometime last month, so perhaps this information do have some amount of credibility-ish(?)
Kindly treat these information with a huge chunk of salt, though.
Segments of unknown tender documents which might be related (phrases whited out due to irrelevance):
