FLIGHTGLOBAL · DEFENSE
WHY THE US MILITARY GOING BOEING FOR SIXTH-GENERATION FIGHTERS IS A SEISMIC SHIFT...
Victory in the navy’s F/A-XX contest, along with its earlier F-47 win, means the airframer has a stranglehold on US sixth-generation fighter programmes.
SCOTT: A budget that jumps from pocket change to real money means the Navy fighter is not dead — it means someone on the Hill got scared of a capability gap. Watch the engine and the carrier fit, not the artist’s rendering.