As a “family of systems,” NGAD is expected to include a manned sixth-generation stealth fighter and a mass of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCAs) that will serve the jets as loyal drone wingmen.

The F-22 Raptor remains the best air superiority fighter jet in the world. It needs the necessary upgrades to remain the best until the Air Force is ready to usher in a new generation of fighter jets ...

Pratt & Whitney has secured a $1.5B contract to sustain F119 engines for the USAF F-22 Raptor fleet, aiming to enhance ...

NGAD represents just one component of a broader ... jet program (the would-be successor to the fifth-generation F-22 Raptor); among the chief reasons for the bleak outlook is the program’s ...

The Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program emerged in 2014. The program was for a "family of systems" to replace the Raptor with a sixth-generation fighter aircraft at its center. They initially ...

The USAF has announced plans to eventually phase out the Raptor in favor of the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter. The NGAD program aims to develop a sixth-generation fighter that will ...

Finally, considering the challenges faced by the NGAD program, which aims to develop a sixth-generation fighter, it is likely that the F-22 Raptor will continue to serve the U.S. Air Force for many ...

The NGAD program is nearing nine months of pause Powerful voices are calling for radical change The Air Force is considering a wide array of new approaches to air superiority But then the Air ...