The Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program is still in the relatively early stages of development – yet the Air Force has an idea of how many NGAD fighters the service would like to procure: 200.
A team of F-35 maintenance experts at Hill AFB, Utah are working to mate the useable sections of two wrecked F-35s to create a fully operational salvaged “Franken-bird”.
The Northrop Grumman YF-23 has attained something of a mythical status among aviation enthusiasts – because of the jet’s performance and because only two were ever made.
Early on, 750 F-22 airframes were planned and 381 were recommended by the Air Combat Command in order to properly execute the National Security Strategy. Following the collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War, these numbers were lowered.