Premier vol d'un démonstrateur du programme NGAD américain !

[Deltafan]

[MS Galileo]

Le NGAD pourrait ne pas être construit

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2024 ... et/397361/

[Deltafan]

Le NGAD pourrait ne pas être construit
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2024 ... et/397361/

Ca n'est pas dénué d'une certaine logique. Perso, je m'étonnais que le coût de constructions de nouveaux F-22 était trop cher, alors que le but était de construire un avion encore beaucoup plus cher...

“Do you think you can still do NGAD”—the planned Next Generation Air Dominance aircraft— “or is that going to have to change into something that turns over every couple of years?” a reporter asked Gen. David Allvin at an Air & Space Forces Association event on Thursday.
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“We're going to have to make those choices, make those decisions, across the landscape. That's going to probably play out in the next [of] couple years or by this [20]26 POM cycle. So those are things in work,” Allvin said.
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Allvin’s comments, made at an Air & Space Forces Association event, signal that the service might be rethinking its plan to build a very expensive and highly sophisticated aircraft now that drones and other new technologies are changing the character of warfare.
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The chief of staff said service leaders can’t pursue programs that put all of their “eggs in one basket” because if the threat advances, they won’t be able to pivot.
Allvin said that’s why the service is putting money towards human-machine teaming and its collaborative combat aircraft, or CCAs: drones that will fly alongside manned fighter jets and perform other missions. These CCAs shouldn’t last for 25 or 30 years, he said, because they need to be inexpensive and agile.
“‘Built to last’ is a tremendous 20th-century bumper sticker, but the assumption was: whatever you had was relevant as long as it lasted. I'm not sure that's relevant anymore. So that's why we aren’t building in a sustainment structure. 10 years after this, I'm hoping the technology will make it so that CCA won't be as relevant, but it might be adaptable, and that's what we're building into modularity and adaptability,” Allvin said.
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[Milos]

alors que le but était de construire un avion encore beaucoup plus cher...

Ca a été fait : le F-35