Race Arms: The US seek to overtake China in creating a 6 generation fighter

The states are working on the next generation aircraft within the NGAD program is an extremely expensive and complicated program. In China, they expected to receive aircraft by 2035. The US Air Force is planning to get ahead of China in the production of 6 generation fighter. About it reports Breaking Defense. The head of the US Armed Forces Mike Kelly said that the states need to create a next generation fighter a month earlier than they would do in China.

There is currently no discussion in the PRC on the relevance of air dominance on aircraft 6 generation. Kelly called it the right way. At the same time, in 2019, Changdu Aerospace Corporation Van Haifen said that China was conducting preliminary research on the creation of a sixth -generation fighter. The new aircraft can be created by 2035 to protect the sea and the sky.

Also then, he named the main features that will appear in American aircraft 6 generation: it is possible that fighters will receive breakthrough technologies: laser weapons, driving swarms and adaptive engines. In the USA, all works of the 6th generation are underway within the NGAD. It is an extremely complex program that includes not only manned vessels but also drones. The cost of one fighter can reach hundreds of millions of dollars, which can delay the creation of aircraft.

"We, as a nation, tend to release the trapezoid and make a jump to the next stage. Our Chinese enemies tend to repeat," Kelly said. In particular, Kelly cited the example of Russian/Soviet Su-27 and SU-30. China repeated their construction and created the J-16. Recall that the US Navy revealed the details of the 6th generation fighter. F/A XX will be able to control the swarms of drones, and it will receive a new weapon of a large radius of action.