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F/A-XX: The Ghost Fighter of the US Navy
The U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter program, envisioned as a crucial replacement for the aging F/A-18 Super ...
U.S. defense strategy evolves with 6th-generation aircraft, including the B-21 Raider and F-47, promising advances in stealth ...
The Trump administration is delaying the U.S. Navy's next-generation F/A-XX fighter jet project to focus resources on the Air ...
The U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter program is facing a major setback, with the Pentagon’s 2026 budget proposal effectively putting the project on hold for at least two years. -Citing a ...
The Defense Department’s fiscal year 2026 budget request has limited spending on the Navy’s next-generation fighter program, ...
The fates of the Navy’s sixth-generation fighter and new frigate program are on hold as part of the Trump administration’s ...
The Navy’s F/A-XX program is in limbo after the service cut funding for the program in initial 2026 budget documents, a move Navy Secretary John Phelan said was driven by industry’s tardiness ...
Just months after Congress appropriated hundreds of millions of dollars to accelerate the Navy’s next-generation fighter, senior defense officials are pushing to delay the F/A‑XX program by up ...
The F/A-XX program is the US Navy’s initiative to develop a sixth-generation fighter aircraft to replace the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and complement the F-35C in the 2030s. Although the program bears ...
Lockheed Martin plans to develop a version of the F-35 that can fly without a pilot, according to the company’s CEO—one of many upgrades the company is pitching for the program after it lost ...
At the heart of the conflict is the F/A-XX program, intended to replace the Navy's aging Boeing (BA.N) F/A-18 Super Hornet fleet with a new carrier-based stealth fighter to be fielded in the 2030s.