If you were put in charge of developing America’s next air superiority fighter—an aircraft purpose-built to dominate the skies over even the most hotly contested warzones of the 21st century—how would you go about doing it? What systems, capabilities and cutting-edge technologies would you build your new fighter around?

That’s a question that was actually posed to America’s premier defense contractors in recent years under secretive developmental programs like the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) and the Navy’s F/A-XX effort. And it's one we aim to answer in this two-parter.

This video covers how to make the stealthiest fighter in history. Next week, we'll cover avionics, countermeasures, and the drone wingmen that'll fly alongside our notional fighter!

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Further Reading:
Read the complete write up: https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/what-kin...
Learn more about Active Flow Control:
https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/is-this-...
How America's new fighters are learning from the F-35: https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/new-us-f...
Learn more about the NGAD: https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/what-art...
Learn more about GE's XA100: https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/the-air-...

Citations:
"Active Flow Control Using Sweeping Jet Actuators on a Semi-Span Wing Model" in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics:
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.20...
"Energy deposition characteristics of nanosecond dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators: Influence of dielectric material" in the Journal of Applied Physics: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063...
"Multifunctional Ceramic Composite System for Simultaneous Thermal Protection and Electromagnetic Interference Shielding for Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites" in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsa...