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Aircraft Type Operators Notes Fixed-wing Aircraft; Boeing T-7 Red Hawk: Trainer: Air Force: To enter service around 2028. [1] Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider: Stealth Strategic bomber: Air Force: To enter service in 2025. [2] Boeing MQ-25 Stingray: Unmanned combat aerial vehicle for Aerial refueling: Navy: To enter service in 2026 [3] Boeing E-7 ...
The Future Combat Air System (FCAS), (French: Système de Combat Aérien du Futur; SCAF; German: Zukünftiges Luftkampfsystem; Spanish: Futuro Sistema Aéreo de Combate; FSAC) is a European combat system of systems under development by Dassault Aviation, Airbus and Indra Sistemas. The FCAS will consist of a Next-Generation Weapon System (NGWS ...
The NGAD originated from Defense Advanced Research Project Agency studies initiated in 2014 to explore concepts for air superiority systems of the 2030s for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy. DARPA completed its Air Dominance Initiative study in March 2014 and based on the results, the Department of Defense acquisition chief Frank Kendall launched the Aerospace Innovation Initiative (AII) in ...
The Future Aircraft Technology Enhancements (FATE) program is a program to develop new technologies. It is being run by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The X-39 aircraft designation is reserved for use with FATE by the USAF.
Aircraft manufacturers are racing to build the jet of the future as airlines demand more efficient planes. Among the most likely concepts is a blended-wing-body aircraft , which combines the ...
An early rendering of a proposed Boeing F/A-XX design. In April 2012, the Navy issued a formal request for information for the F/A-XX. It calls for an air superiority fighter with multi-role capabilities to initially complement and eventually supersede the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft in the 2030s, while complementing the F-35C Lightning II and UCLASS unmanned aircraft ...
Boeing ordered a new study to assess the future market and the kind of aircraft that could meet that market, effectively shelving its current plan. Boeing was losing market share to the 200 to 240-seat Airbus A321 in particular, which targets a similar segment of the market to the NMA.
In 2018, for example, airlines received 1,813 new planes. Willie Walsh, director general of IATA, says it would take 14 years to deliver all ordered aircraft at the current rate.