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CasualObserver

CasualObserver

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ACuriousPLAFan said:
The USA: *Introduces Increment 1 CCAs like introducing a strategic VLO bomber*
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This is an Incr.2 actually...
The company says Talon has been in the works for 15 months and they are targeting another nine months till its first flight. The aircraft was designed based on lessons learned from Increment One of the USAF’s CCA program, which Northrop Grumman lost to General Atomics and Anduril.
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Edit: Oh wait, nvm...

The resulting design is superior in some aspects, according to Northrop Grumman. Still, this new aircraft isn’t necessarily targeted at Increment Two, with company officials saying there is already high interest from the services and foreign buyers in Talon.
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douglaxd

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A Naval News reporter with a little bit of insider information (can probably guess who). Pretty fucked for the USN to be using super hornets for the next 15-20 years, F-35C's haven't been able to properly replace them. Pretty expected considering Hegseth didn't think they could handle two sixth gen programs at once, so I assume NGAD is going to eat up all of the funding that would've gone to FA/XX. Maybe this is the result of Chinese psychological warfare.
 
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Virtup

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I think there was a bloomberg article about how they managed to get a letter from Hegseth to congress affirming the white house's position on cancelling or delaying F/A-XX due to "concerns about the industry's ability to simultaneously develop two 6th gen fighter programs".
If true, they're basically confirming they lost the R&D battle to China. It would also align with their new strategy of prioritizing homeland security. They might have realised that both their airfields and aircraft carriers within the 1st island chain would get blasted anyway so why bother.
 
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Virtup said:
I think there was a bloomberg article about how they managed to get a letter from Hegseth to congress affirming the white house's position on cancelling or delaying F/A-XX due to "concerns about the industry's ability to simultaneously develop two 6th gen fighter programs".
If true, they're basically confirming they lost the R&D battle to China. It would also align with their new strategy of prioritizing homeland security. They might have realised that both their airfields and aircraft carriers within the 1st island chain would get blasted anyway so why bother.
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Carriers work everywhere.

But it's indeed an interesting tug of war between USAF/USN, industry, Pentagon and internal views on industry capabilities, because US carrier force ( most likely largest single capital commitment to a military item on Earth) can in fact be severely dulled this way within 10 yrs from now.
Or, to be exact, dulling happened in 2000s, F/A-XX is an attempt to recover out of it.
 
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