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SlothmanAllen

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johncliu88 said:
GE's new Gen jet engine.
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Any word on naming / product number or what aircraft it can be adapted to? Getting an adaptive cycle engine out that can be retrofitted onto older platforms would give them some big performance gains.

Also, new DARPA unmanned surface vessel spotted.

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USX-1 Defiant

Interesting to see the first purpose built large unmanned vessel (180 ft length, 240 metric tons) rolled out in the US. They have it covered right now, so it will be interesting to see what sensors it has along with what type of weapons it is armed with.

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Lockheed is out of the F/A-XX competition!

Seems like their submission did not satisfy Navy requirements and now the competition is down to Boeing and Northrop. You have to wonder if Boeing gets the preference based on Northrop already having the B-21 contract, or is this a chance for Northrop to establish itself as the dominant provider of aircraft for the DoD?

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ACuriousPLAFan

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SlothmanAllen said:
Lockheed is out of the F/A-XX competition!

Seems like their submission did not satisfy Navy requirements and now the competition is down to Boeing and Northrop. You have to wonder if Boeing gets the preference based on Northrop already having the B-21 contract, or is this a chance for Northrop to establish itself as the dominant provider of aircraft for the DoD?

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Seems like the US Navy has had enough with LockMart's F-35B/C shenannigans.
 
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Overbom said:
And what is the US Navy going to do now? Turn to that high tech, ultra reliable, wonder company, called Boeing, to build their planes? lmao
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Northrop is still in competition. Aviation Week had an article a week or so ago that said Boeing was expected to be announced the winner of the NGAD contract. They had a $1 billion factory under construction for NGAD manufacturing. So unless the whole NGAD program is recompeted, I think they could be announced the NGAD winner given time constraints.

Assuming Northrop has a competent proposal for the F/A-XX program (which they seem to think they did when they dropped out of the NGAD program) I could see Boeing being awarded the NGAD project and Northrop having the F/A-XX program. That means you have all three major manufacturers designing and building various fighter jets into the 2030s.
 
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ACuriousPLAFan

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SlothmanAllen said:
Northrop is still in competition. Aviation Week had an article a week or so ago that said Boeing was expected to be announced the winner of the NGAD contract. They had a $1 billion factory under construction for NGAD manufacturing. So unless the whole NGAD program is recompeted, I think they could be announced the NGAD winner given time constraints.

Assuming Northrop has a competent proposal for the F/A-XX program (which they seem to think they did when they dropped out of the NGAD program) I could see Boeing being awarded the NGAD project and Northrop having the F/A-XX program. That means you have all three major manufacturers designing and building various fighter jets into the 2030s.
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If that's eventually the case, then I'm really wishing for that Boeing NGAD's F-XX to have canards, akin to their previous illustrations.

That's gonna be one hell of the biggest spite-on-your-face moment to all those who went "muh canards, no stealth" on the J-20 for the past 10+ years.
 
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