New American Fighter Flies

[Raellus]

If AI somehow gets stuck in 2020, yeah. But that's not going to happen. It'll take, what, at least 10 years from digital design to operational 6th gen airframe? In that time, AI will get even smarter and more capable. Human beings, meanwhile, are currently protesting being asked to wear cloth masks during the worst pandemic since the Spanish Flu. Are human pilots going to get smarter and more capable in the next decade or so? I wouldn't count on it.

Advantage AI.

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[swaghauler]

Originally Posted by Raellus

If AI somehow gets stuck in 2020, yeah. But that's not going to happen. It'll take, what, at least 10 years from digital design to operational 6th gen airframe? In that time, AI will get even smarter and more capable. Human beings, meanwhile, are currently protesting being asked to wear cloth masks during the worst pandemic since the Spanish Flu. Are human pilots going to get smarter and more capable in the next decade or so? I wouldn't count on it.

Advantage AI.

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The Air Force has admitted that a prototype is flying now. From the two grainy photos I've seen, it looks like a flattened YF-23 with a funky "taileron" type arrangement in place of tail rudders.