The title says it all really. The Navy will finally make a choice regarding who will proceed to produce the F/A-XX. I guess the only question is who between Boeing and Northrop is considered to have more spare capacity to design and build the platform?
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The title says it all really. The Navy will finally make a choice regarding who will proceed to produce the F/A-XX. I guess the only question is who between Boeing and Northrop is considered to have more spare capacity to design and build the platform?
I'd give it to Northrop.
I don’t know if this is an actually representative of the Northrop submission, but they just posted this video on Twitter.
J-36 has one dorsal intake out of three — will choke at high AOA and cannot possibly maneuver is therefore a bomber.
FA-XX with both intakes on top — still a fighter and will maneuver better than any Chinese bird.
I remember everyone was making fun of Qaher-313 because of the top intake, calling it a F-4 in a fat suit and stuff.
I was going to say, it looked a lot like it minus the tail. Now we can joke the Shahed isn't the only thing they are copying, lol
I mean, the hate for this thing is justified, and not just because of the top intake. They literally took random sci-fi like features and put them together on a "plane".
I guess this confirms that the PAC-3 MSE is being adopted by the US Navy.
EDIT: Instead of making a new post...
Concepts for the new destroyer AD(X) and submarine AS(X) by General Dynamics. I believe the FY27 budget calls for funding both of these concepts.
EDIT: Instead of making a new post...
Concepts for the new destroyer AD(X) and submarine AS(X) by General Dynamics. I believe the FY27 budget calls for funding both of these concepts.
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