So basically US announced a name tag "F-47" and revealed absolutely nothing else. This is very un-American like when they showed off B-21 and everything before that. I guess the official was trying to say "Why would you assume that there is a design?" China should now demand transparency like US did in the past "show me or you are a fraud".
US F/A-XX and F-X & NGAD - 6th Gen Aircraft News Thread
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Lethe
Captain
Personally, I'm quite enjoying these ongoing references to the budgetary challenges associated with recapitalizing the nuclear triad, as if those costs are an immutable feature of reality rather than the product of specific choices that were backed across the political and military establishments and endorsed by a weak Obama administration that knew the bill would be Somebody Else's Problem.
In another world, the United States could've retired the land-based leg of its nuclear triad, thereby avoiding the budgetary black hole that is the LGM-35 Sentinel program and associated infrastructure costs. Washington could also have used that prospect in negotiations with both Russia and China regarding the renewal and development/expansion of their nuclear inventories respectively.
Instead, the strategically superfluous LGM-35 Sentinel is crowding out funding for NGAD. Choices and consequences, etc.
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manqiangrexue
Brigadier
MAGE expectation: US hiding advanced features they don’t want China to know about.
Reality: China can't know about them because the designers don't know about them yet.
A page from Tzun Su's art of war there: "My enemy wouldn't know what i'm doing if i don't know either".
Only thing magical about MAGAs is their ability to seethe and cope.
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
I did hear yesterday on a Facebook argument that in response to someone saying that Trump has backtracked on telling China that he won't negotiate unless China drops all its reciprocal tariffs, a MAGA fan said, "That's because he's a great a leader who can have humility for the sake of his people and negotiate with his enemy." Almost fell outta my chair laughing at that one...
You wanna see some other magic; that's bending timelines (which is not the same as bending time, as we discussed in the Science Thread). As we speak, they're designing the aircraft that they're gonna tell everyone that China copied to get the J-36.
"They also won't be protesting the Air Force's NGAD award to Boeing."
In other words, LM predicts that Boeing's F-47 will be a quarter better than F-35 at twice the price.
"They also won't be protesting the Air Force's NGAD award to Boeing."
To be fair, it's sort of normal for heavy fighters.
80/20 rule bites hard in fighters.
6th Gen minus
"They also won't be protesting the Air Force's NGAD award to Boeing."