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NGAD: The Air Force’s $300,000,000 Fighter Plane Challenge

The United States Air Force announced in late January that it was more than tripling the authorized spending ceiling for its Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion (NGAP) program. The service is now ...
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Shenyang J-50: China’s Sixth-Generation J-50 Stealth Fighter Emerges as Beijing’s Most Ambitious Attempt to Outpace U.S. NGAD and Europe’s FCAS, Signaling a Maj…

China’s relentless push to dominate the future battlespace has once again drawn global attention with its sixth-generation ...
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Could the Walls Be Closing in on the F-35? Meet the ‘Ferrari’ F-35D Fighter

Key Points: After Boeing secured the F-47 NGAD contract in March 2025, Lockheed Martin unveiled plans for an upgraded "fifth-generation-plus" F-35, integrating technologies from its own NGAD bid.
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See the competing F-47 stealth fighter jet concepts from Boeing, Lockheed, and more that led to the Air Force's NGAD

Boeing won the $20 billion contract to develop the US Air Force's sixth-gen stealth fighter, the F-47. The designation is a nod to the P-47 fighter, the Air Force's founding year, and the 47th ...
The National Interest

The F-47 NGAD Might Not Have Canards After All

Defense analysts without access to classified information are roughly back where they started—without tangible evidence of what the NGAD design may include, and instead forced instead to rely upon ...