200k US 6th Generation Fighter Jets Shocked The World

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00:00 The fastest, stealthiest, and most agile fighter of the century, the American 6th generation

00:12 NGAD fighter will be everything for the Chinese and Russian militaries to fear and lose to,

00:17 should the seemingly likely war between the world powers eventually break out.

00:22 The NGAD fighters will be crucial in such a war, and hundreds of them could take to

00:26 the sky to deal unprecedented damage.

00:29 This is our focus in this video today, the 6th generation fighter that can shock the

00:34 world and how the Air Force will wield a lethal, unstoppable, massive fleet of 200 of them.

00:44 On March 7th, at the 2023 Air and Space Forces Association's Warfare Symposium, Secretary

00:51 of the Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Frank Kendall discussed the Air Force's future plans

00:55 to maintain its air superiority.

00:58 This was the first time the service has given a real sense of the scope and scale of its

01:02 plan for its future fighter plans.

01:05 The plan revolves around acquiring 200 units of the 6th generation NGAD fighter, operating

01:10 the existing 300 units of the 5th generation F-35 Lightning II, and supporting those fighters

01:16 with 1,000 autonomous drones, with each fighter having two drones.

01:22 The drones, also known as Collaborative Combat Aircraft, or CCAs for short, are being developed

01:28 alongside the manned 6th generation NGAD fighter.

01:31 In other words, they would be 6th generation combat drones.

01:35 They would act as extensions of the sensors, electronic warfare, and weapons on manned

01:40 fighters, saving the fighters from taking on the risk of going to the edge of battle

01:44 until absolutely necessary.

01:46 For this life-saving fighter drone configuration, the Air Force is sparing no expense.

01:52 For the fiscal year 2024 alone, the service has a budget of $2.4 billion, and $392 million

01:59 of this goes to the development of the CCAs.

02:02 These numbers would likely only increase over the coming years, as the Air Force has previously

02:07 made it clear that each NGAD fighter will cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and

02:11 the overall NGAD program could cost over $100 billion.

02:16 For context, America's current most lethal fighter, the F-22 Raptor, costs a whopping

02:22 $350 million, the most of any fighter in history.

02:27 And the F-22 Raptor is what the NGAD fighter is slated to replace when it enters service,

02:32 although that move may be a bit controversial, and we'll get to why in a minute.

02:36 For now, it's important to note that the total of 200 NGAD combat jets is roughly equivalent

02:41 to the size of the Air Force's current F-22 Raptor fleet, hinting that the entire F-22

02:47 fleet will be replaced.

02:49 The F-22 is reportedly involved in the NGAD program as some form of testbed upon which

02:54 the NGAD fighter would be born.

02:56 This is expected, as only the current indomitable, unrivaled, and unmatched fighter can birth

03:02 a new, more indomitable, more unrivaled, and more unmatched fighter and overall program

03:08 that's packed with jaw-dropping, never-before-seen capabilities.

03:13 NGAD Capabilities NGAD stands for Next Generation Air Dominance.

03:18 It is the United States' sixth-generation program tasked with developing the future generation

03:23 family of systems that will ensure air superiority for U.S. forces in the most challenging operational

03:29 environments.

03:30 The idea that would birth the NGAD was initiated in 2014 after the Defense Advanced Research

03:35 Projects Agency, or DARPA, had completed its Air Dominance Initiative study in March 2014.

03:42 The U.S. Air Force would join in on this quest in 2016 via the AS-2030 flight plan, although

03:48 the service was initially focused on a single future-generation fighter jet as opposed to

03:52 what it is today, a family of systems.

03:56 NGAD, as a family of systems, is developing several key technologies in areas such as

04:01 propulsion, stealth, advanced weapons, digital design, and thermal management of the aircraft

04:06 signature.

04:07 These technologies will be used to build new sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles, weapons,

04:12 and the centerpiece around which others revolve, the manned, sixth-generation NGAD fighter.

04:18 The NGAD fighter, to a great extent, defines the entire NGAD family of systems.

04:23 Its capabilities could either make or mar the capabilities of other NGAD systems.

04:29 So to know the true potential and capabilities of NGAD, it is important to take a look at

04:33 the capabilities of the fighter, particularly in crucial areas such as stealth, architecture,

04:39 sensors, and weapons.

04:41 Stealth Stealth is an advancement that has been here

04:44 only one generation of fighters ago, but it's one that's here to stay.

04:49 According to the Air Force's biennial acquisition report covering the fiscal years 2019 and

04:54 2020, the NGAD fighter maximizes its stealth features by taking an overall triangular shape,

04:59 internally holding its payload, and having no distinct tail section, also known as vertical

05:04 stabilizers.

05:06 It is the first fighter in history to be unveiled with such a revolutionary design.

05:11 Vertical stabilizers had always been required to keep an aircraft airborne until the concept

05:16 of active flow control came to life in the B-2 spirit.

05:20 Active flow control uses computer brains on board to constantly adjust the flow around

05:24 the aircraft to keep it airborne, similar to how birds fly.

05:28 The result of this on an aircraft is top-level stealth, and, well, it's not a wallet-friendly

05:34 cost.

05:35 This to an extent justifies why the B-2 costs $2 billion and why Congress has budgeted over

05:41 $10 billion for the NGAD in less than a decade.

05:45 In architecture, laser weapons that can take out targets on the ground, in the air, on

05:51 the seas, and even in space.

05:53 A mix of high-performance guns, missiles, AETP engines capable of subsonic, transonic,

05:59 and supersonic flight that cost over $6 billion to develop.

06:03 Loyal wingmen, top-of-the-line electronic warfare countermeasures, avionics, and communications

06:08 are only some of what to expect on the NGAD fighter.

06:11 But despite these advancements, decades of history have taught the U.S. that an aircraft

06:16 will always have room to be better no matter how advanced it already is, especially with

06:21 near-peer adversaries becoming more near-peer by the day.

06:24 As a result, the NGAD fighter will come with an open architecture that enables the fighter

06:29 to take on new upgrades easily and quickly.

06:33 This way, the fighter will constantly adapt to newer challenges of the battlefield that

06:37 are introduced by the advancements of opposing militaries.

06:40 To put it simply, the 6th generation NGAD fighter can be upgraded to become the 7th

06:46 generation NGAD fighter years after it's fielded.

06:49 Advanced Sensors and Weapons The NGAD fighter's immediate surroundings

06:53 will be miles wide, as it would be capable of spotting targets, friendlies, and points

06:58 of interest from tens of miles away.

07:00 This capability enables the fighter to double as a surveillance, reconnaissance, and target

07:05 acquisition aircraft.

07:06 The sensors that make this possible come with maximum connectivity and thus the ability

07:11 to share its data with every other member of the fleet, whether 6th generation or not,

07:16 keeping every member of the U.S. fleet abreast of relevant information in real-time.

07:21 The U.S. would do away with radars mounted on aircraft to electronically configured smart

07:26 skins integrated into the aircraft's fuselage.

07:29 This results in increased sensor sensitivity as well as network adaptability.

07:34 It also aids with communication across the fleet and ultimately enables remote control.

07:39 As a result, the NGAD fighter is designed to be optionally manned depending on the requirements

07:44 of the mission.

07:45 Moving on from systems to weapons, the NGAD fighter is armed to the teeth with the widest

07:50 array of the most advanced American guns, bombs, missiles, and laser-directed energy

07:55 weapons.

07:56 All of these capabilities and more would make the U.S. Air Force virtually invincible, but

08:01 not just them.

08:02 The Navy, too, would like a piece of the 6th generation fighter pie.

08:06 The new 6th generation fighters would replace the F/A-18 Super Hornet from the Navy and

08:11 as said earlier, will replace in the Air Force the F-22 Raptor.

08:15 And although the Air Force has made this clear, there are discussions questioning this move

08:19 and making it a controversial one.

08:22 For some, the F-22 shouldn't be replaced and should simply fly alongside the NGAD fighter

08:27 like the more intelligent, less expensive, and newer F-35 will.

08:31 Understandable as this argument might be, there are valid reasons why the immediate

08:36 future of the F-22 isn't in the sky.

08:40 Future of the F-22 Raptor

08:43 Every era comes to an end at some point.

08:45 The F-22 Raptor will always be remembered as the fighter that changed the world.

08:50 The first 5th generation fighter jet, the first stealth fighter, the indomitable king

08:54 of air superiority even to this day, and so on.

08:58 The F-22 Raptor is a highly effective special weapon to the US Air Force.

09:03 So special in fact that there's a federal law in place that prevents it from being sold

09:06 to any country across the globe, not even to allies of the United States.

09:11 The F-22 Raptor was truly everything the US needed.

09:15 But times have changed, the battlefield has evolved, and the US, once alone in fielding

09:20 5th generation fighters, now must compete with 5th generation fighters from other nations

09:25 such as the Su-57 Felon from Russia and the J-20 from China.

09:30 And while the F-22 could reportedly best these foreign fighters, it's simply less daunting

09:34 to take out 5th generation fighters with a new 6th generation NGAD fighter that performs

09:39 the F-22's air superiority job better than the F-22 ever could.

09:44 Better than any fighter ever could.

09:47 The NGAD fighter is designed to be a wonder, to be one reason non-allies would think twice

09:52 about attacking the US, and then erase such thoughts.

09:56 It will be the aircraft version of a nuclear weapon with unimaginable power.

10:01 And finally, it is the aircraft that would like you to subscribe to this channel and

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