6th Generation Fighters Projects

[Bhartiya sainik]

Perhaps the easiest full-scale F-47 look-alike TD/prototype modified from existing jet F-22.
The wing & tail-stab positions are interchanged & rudders removed.
It is a quick, simple,notional edit, many small flaws can be observed by people into 3D CAD.
Making its front, side, bottom views w/o 3D S/w by just imagining is very tedious at this time, what i used to do on graph sheets in school-days in 1990s watching F-117, B-2, developing F-22 on Discovery channel. The good old days
Anyways, i wonder if LM built such a jet for competition or research.

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Here is the V2 with wing lengthened, leading edge angle increased.
The canard had to be shortened, maintaining planform design. With TVC nozzles, big canards may not be required.
I made the nose narrower, triangular to lessen drag & RCS.
Comparison with V1 is also shown.
The day i'll get a light weight, old, stable version of some 3D CAD S/w for my old laptop, i'll start translating these into 3D.
Feedbacks are welcome, i'm making a V3 also.

 

[koxinga]

Clearest (depends on how you define it. The noise is still quite obvious) photo of the J-XX

 

[Bhartiya sainik]

YF-23's designer's conceptual view of F-47 NGAD:

YF-23 Designer Offers His Take On Boeing’s F-47 NGAD Configuration | Aviation Week Network

Renowned aircraft designer Darold Cummings explores questions raised by Boeing’s F-47 NGAD design.

aviationweek.com

F-22 is 62 ft. long & the drawing is quoted at 61 ft. which i don't is possible for a 6gen specs with bigger better engine, more fuel, weapons, equipment.
NGAD should be expected to be bigger than F-22. So, following is comparison with F-22 after comparing cockpit.

 

[koxinga]

During the 1990s, there were a number of studies published on innovative control effectors (ICE) where topics such as all moving wing-tips, elevons, pitch flaps were studied for tailless designs.

Secret Projects have a good summary of these projects/studies and makes you wonder how much the Chinese picked up from this research.

FATE and ICE studies

Here's some more tailless fighter designs These first two are of a design that was used for testing various flight control surfaces in the wind tunnel. This appears to be another version of the above design, but with at least an F-16 canopy. Here is a proposed modified F-16XL to flight...

www.secretprojects.co.uk

 

[Military Update]

If i'm not wrong there isn't a thread yet for new and future 5,5th and 6th generation fighterjet programs, so lets start one.


Thats quite extreme....and maybe one of the differences between 5th and 6th generation jetfighters, even more data transfer and situational awareness.

Secrets of Tempest’s ground-breaking radar revealed

Radar engineers on the sixth-generation Tempest fighter program say they will break data-processing records by way of miniaturization and going digital.

www.c4isrnet.com

the world of military aviation is abuzz with whispers and speculation surrounding one of China's most secretive military projects: the Chengdu J-36. Often referred to as the “Chinese NGAD,” the J-36 is believed to represent Beijing’s entry into the sixth generation of air combat technology — a space dominated by next-generation platforms such as the U.S. NGAD and Europe's Future Combat Air System (FCAS).