Not much point in sharing real design and performance features. BS to confuse the completion is much better.
Interesting but the mock-up is 99% bulls**t.
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These 6th gen fighters are huge. GCAP at around 20metres long and I believe the F-47 will come in at 45metres. I can't imagine what the price tags on these things will be.
Thats…. Huge. Even the most generous projections from early NGAD didn’t go that big. That size would basically have resulted in cancellation of F47/NGAD for an FB21. I know there is a lot of talk of long ranges being a factor for NGAD but The need to cross tha pacific without refueling would basically result in a bomber. The larger the aircraft the harder it is to operate in terms of air bases and rotations with penalties on performance to boot. Then you have the cost and sortie rates. The assumption of a huge NGAD was based on being forced to operate at extreme long ranges but comes with a huge maintenance and crew penalty. Making a B1 sized Fighter just isn’t realistic. Most reports favor now an objective of 1,000 NM combat range. Aircraft half the size you state with older engines and aerodynamics like the F111 were capable of that.
Pretty sure F47 won’t be anywhere near that big. NGAD went through a major revision a number of years ago and what seems to be implied is that the F47 is probably 20meters. Early on they seemed to be moving towards a large NGAD at about 25m now they seem to be pushing closer to the current norm. Air to air refueling, CCAs, Distributed basing makes up for loss of range. Though it’s likely that F47 will be pushed for a considerable longer combat range but new engines seem to be coming to assist in that.
My mistake 25 metres.