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The US Air Force’s programme for a sixth generation fighter jet and related systems, Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD), is progressing according to plan. This is according to a top acquisition official at the service in September, a year after then-acquisition chief Will Roper announced USAF had flown a full-scale prototype of an NGAD fighter. NGAD is not one of the Air Force’s programs where I'm able to share a lot of details,” said Duke Richardson, military deputy in the office of the assistant secretary of the Air Force for AT&L, at this year’s Air, Space & Cyber conference.I will just tell you that it is progressing per plan. There’s just so much of it that’s not able to be discussed in an open forum. We do not want to be on the other side of coming in second in air superiority,” Mark Kelly explained at the conference.

The Air Force has taken the first step toward a rapid acquisition of Boeing’s E-7A Wedgetail airborne warning and control aircraft to replace the aging E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System, or AWACS, according to an Oct. 20 business opportunity announcement. The Air Force announced it’s seeking information from Boeing to perform “studies, analyses, and activities required to ascertain the current E-7A baseline configuration and determine what additional work would be necessary” to make the aircraft compatible with Air Force “configuration standards and mandates.” It didn’t specify when it would be seeking the new airplane. 👉 https://youtu.be/Yh3XH9of5Ik 👉 https://youtu.be/ZWra5YaFO0s

In 1955, the Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Air Force and defense contractor Lockheed Martin chose an ultra-remote site in the Mojave Desert of southern Nevada, about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas, to begin testing and developing the newest, most advanced aircraft in the world at the time. But even if no alien-made UFOs ever took to the skies over the salt flat known as Groom Lake, we now know thanks in large part to declassified CIA documents that a number of highly sophisticated, highly unusual aircraft were developed and tested there. From the U-2 spy planes of the Cold War era to a purely experimental Star Trek-inspired craft from the 1990s, here are six of Area 51’s most intriguing aircraft.

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