Key Points and Summary - The Navy is poised to name a winner for F/A-XX, its sixth-generation carrier fighter, after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved the down-select earlier this month.

Key Points and Summary – With an announcement on the U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX 6th-gen fighter imminent, an inside look reveals a surprising backstory. -The conventional wisdom was shattered when Boeing, not ...

Boeing has begun building the U.S. Air Force’s next generation stealth fighter and intends to fly it for the first time in 2028, Gen. David Allvin, the Air Force chief of staff, said Monday. Allvin’s ...

In March of 2025, the U.S. Air Force announced that it had selected the contractor for its sixth-generation stealth fighter program: not Lockheed Martin, which made the F-22 and still makes the F-35, ...

Chief of Naval Operations Daryl Caudle stressed that the sixth-gen fighter jet was urgently needed to replace the US Navy’s existing fleet of F/A-18 Super Hornets and EA-18G Growlers. The US Navy ...

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