NGAD Fighter: The 6th Gen Jet That Will Dominate the Future Skies!

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The U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter jet is here — faster, stealthier, and deadlier than anything before. Designed to dominate future battlefields, this 6th generation marvel is packed with cutting-edge tech, AI capabilities, and unmatched air superiority features. Here's a quick look at the jet changing the future of air combat.  #NGAD #FighterJet #6thGeneration #MilitaryTech #FutureWarfare NGAD Fighter, 6th generation fighter jet, Next Generation Air Dominance, US Air Force, future jet, stealth fighter, AI jet fighter, military aircraft, fighter jet, USAF, next-gen warfare, advanced aviation, air superiority, sixth gen fighter, future combat jet, aviation technology, supersonic jet, military tech, futuristic aircraft, aerial dominance, defense innovation, NGAD 6th gen, air power, fighter of the future,

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00:00What would you do if you were king and rivals were lurking around, challenging for the crown?

00:13Would you be like Dre and bite prey?

00:16Or would you spend billions of dollars every year for over a decade to build the most powerful fighter the world has ever seen?

00:23Armed with capabilities the world has never seen to bring untold destruction to rivals, the U.S. Air Force went with untold destruction to rivals.

00:42Get ready. You're about to be briefed on a highly classified project.

00:46It's no news that the U.S. budget's more for defense than any other nation in the world.

00:52A lot more.

00:54Many billions in these budgets are going to one single program.

00:58The NGAD program.

01:00The NGAD program is designed to create a family of systems whose members are technological innovations.

01:06Among them, new weapons, sensors, electronic warfare suites, battle management capabilities, engines.

01:12But most notably, new unmanned loyal wingmen, known as the Collaborative Combat Aircraft.

01:19And a new manned fighter known simply as the NGAD fighter.

01:24Over $4 billion has already been spent on the NGAD program.

01:29And a lot more is underway.

01:30The Pentagon's proposed budget for the fiscal year 2025 amounts to $850 billion.

01:39$815 million of this goes into continued work on the Air Force's NGAD fighter alone.

01:46This is a substantial increase over last year's request of $276 million.

01:52Once in service, this fighter may be the most expensive fighter in not just the world, but in all of history.

01:59After all, the fighter the NGAD fighter will replace is none other than the F-22 Raptor, the current most expensive fighter in the world.

02:09It's therefore no surprise that the Air Force's overall request for the NGAD program as a whole, year over year,

02:16has grown from just over $1.9 billion to nearly $2.75 billion.

02:22$11 billion will be spent on the program over the next five years, and at least $40 billion on the program overall.

02:31The major recipients of these high-dollar numbers include the NGAD fighter, whose capabilities we'll see in a minute,

02:39and the Collaborative Combat Aircraft Loyal Wingmen, whose capabilities we'll see right now.

02:45Collaborative Combat Aircraft, or CCAs, are the unmanned Loyal Wingmen section of the NGAD program.

02:56They harness cutting-edge disruptive technologies such as autonomy, machine learning, and artificial intelligence

03:02to support manned fighters in executing their missions.

03:05The Loyal Wingmen can perform a variety of tasks during missions,

03:09from carrying weapons and flying ahead to provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance,

03:14to electronic warfare and even striking targets directly.

03:19Fielding such collaborative aircraft in their numbers is one way to achieve comprehensive battles-based surveillance

03:24and agile combat employment from different altitudes at different angles,

03:29making mission planning dynamic and flexible.

03:33These are benefits that the U.S. Air Force cannot afford not to have.

03:37The service plans to spend over $6 billion over the next five years on developing CCAs.

03:44The Air Force is expected to launch a competition in 2024 to decide which contractor will develop these aircraft.

03:51Anduril, Boeing, General Atomics, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman

03:55are the five contractors already working on possible CCA designs.

04:00A down-select from the initial five contractors down to two or three is expected later this year.

04:06Dozens of additional firms are supporting the program through the development of autonomous technologies,

04:12sensors and other mission systems, command and control capabilities, and more.

04:17The goal is to have a CCA design actually in production by 2028.

04:22It's quite a reach, but then again, the CCA development may not be starting from scratch.

04:28Some programs which share a similar goal with CCAs already exist.

04:33DARPA's Air Combat Evolution,

04:35Boeing Australia's MQ-28A Ghost Bat Project,

04:39and the Air Force Research Laboratory's Skyborg program

04:42are only some of such programs aimed at developing manned-unmanned teaming capabilities in the skies.

04:49The Skyborg program already appears to be the choice for the Air Force.

04:53The service proposed $51.7 million in its 2024 budget proposal

04:59to transition Skyborg's autonomous flight technology to CCA programs.

05:04So some progress has been made with these unmanned aircraft.

05:08Once complete, each CCA is expected to cost between $20 to $40 million.

05:13At roughly the same price of an F-16 Fighting Falcon,

05:17they aren't expendable drones by any means.

05:20The Air Force plans to acquire at least 1,000 CCAs.

05:25It also plans to have 500 manned fighters in its fleet.

05:28Therefore, a pair of CCAs will be assigned to each manned fighter in the fleet.

05:33This fleet will include 300 units of the 5th generation F-35 Lightning II

05:38and the 200 units of the lethal, mighty capable, 6th generation ENGAD fighter.

05:44ENGAD stands for Next Generation Air Dominance,

05:51which is exactly what it's made to achieve.

05:54Air Dominance of the Next Generation of Aircraft.

05:58To achieve this, an entire suite of new technologies must be produced,

06:02which is where the new sensors, engines, weapons, and other capabilities come into play.

06:06They all work together towards the common goal of air dominance.

06:11The most crucial part of this program is the ENGAD fighter,

06:14and it is what will feature the majority of the technologies being developed in the program.

06:19The result will be a fighter that wields capabilities right out of a science fiction movie.

06:25Capabilities such as advanced stealth.

06:28The ENGAD fighter will build on the stealth technology of previous American aircraft,

06:33fighters, and bombers alike.

06:35Like the B-2 Spirit, the stealthiest aircraft in service today,

06:39the ENGAD fighter will take an overall triangular shape,

06:43internally hold its payload, and have no vertical stabilizers.

06:47It is the first fighter ever to have such a revolutionary design.

06:51Vertical stabilizers had always been required to keep an aircraft airborne

06:55until the concept of active flow control came to life in the B-2 Spirit.

07:00Active flow control uses computer brains on board

07:03to constantly adjust the flow around the aircraft to keep it airborne,

07:07similar to how birds fly.

07:10Open architecture.

07:12Decades of history have taught the U.S. that an aircraft will always have room to be better,

07:18no matter how advanced it already is,

07:20especially with near-peer adversaries becoming more near-peer by the day.

07:25Therefore, the ENGAD fighter will come with an open architecture

07:28that enables the fighter to take on new upgrades easily and quickly.

07:33This way, the fighter will constantly adapt to newer challenges of the battlefield

07:37that are introduced by the advancements of opposing militaries.

07:41To put it simply, the 6th generation ENGAD fighter can be upgraded

07:45to become the 7th generation ENGAD fighter years after it's fielded.

07:51Maximum connectivity.

07:52To swiftly gather relevant information about its surroundings and act on that information,

07:58the ENGAD fighter is slated to wield the most sensitive sensors ever installed on a fighter.

08:04The Air Force will do away with radars mounted on the aircraft

08:08for electronically configured smart skins integrated into the aircraft's fuselage to achieve this.

08:14Information acquired by these sensors will be made available to other members of the fleet,

08:19whether 6th generation or not, to keep the entire fleet of friendlies abreast of relevant information in real time.

08:26The Air Force fleet instantly becomes a tightly interconnected force in the sky,

08:31and it's all in large part thanks to the connectivity of its new fighter.

08:36New spectrum of weapons.

08:38The ENGAD fighter will be armed to the teeth with weapons the Raptor, its predecessor, wields, and more.

08:46Like the Raptor, the new fighter will wield missiles, bombs, and possibly a massive rotary cannon.

08:52Unlike the Raptor, however, the ENGAD fighter could wield laser-directed energy weapons

08:56that take out threats with high-intensity laser beams.

08:59These come with an entire slew of advantages over legacy weapons.

09:041. Laser weapons have unlimited magazines,

09:07as they continue to fire for as long as they're connected to some power source.

09:112. They strike targets at a speed of 180,000 miles per second.

09:17The speed of light.

09:18The fastest thing in the universe.

09:21Targets would have to do the impossible to evade them.

09:243. Laser weapons are autonomous in operation,

09:27as they execute the majority of their work without human intervention.

09:32The Air Force has multiple laser weapons in the works,

09:35but the most promising of these remains the Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator,

09:40or S.H.I.E.L.D. for short.

09:42S.H.I.E.L.D. is being developed by a team of Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin,

09:47three of the most capable defense contractors in the world,

09:50and the three most likely contenders to build the fleet of 6th Generation ENGAD fighters.

09:55At least until Northrop Grumman dropped out of the running last year.

10:00Northrop Grumman is a contender in the U.S. Navy's ENGAD equivalent program,

10:04and is also developing the B-21 Raider, the Air Force's most advanced bomber yet.

10:10The company already has a lot on its plate, and besides that,

10:14would the Air Force want the same company producing its two most advanced aircraft?

10:18Considering that Lockheed Martin, which has been building the most superior fighters in history,

10:24is available?

10:25That's anyone's guess.

10:27Currently, Boeing and Lockheed Martin are the two prime contractors contending for the ENGAD fighter contract.

10:32How that will go is also anyone's guess,

10:35but a competition between the two primes would be the likely decider.

10:39The global polity continues to heat up.

10:42Wars have broken out, and more seem just a few years away.

10:45The U.S. is at the center of a number of these, as rivals continue to get more daring.

10:51In response, a new family of air-dominant systems are taking shape,

10:56and they promise to do what every powerful family does,

11:00stick together and destroy their enemies.

11:03If that sounds like a plan, give this video a like and subscribe to this channel for the ENGAD family.

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