A pilot who was qualified on both the F15 and F22 said that a dogfight between the two was, "like a boxing match between two world champion heavyweights, but one of them just happens to be totally invisible."
The Sandboxx "Real History of the SR-72" is the best video for a beginner; all his info about next-gen aerospace is great and the SR-72 is the tip of that spear.
The f35 helmet has the see through airframe you mentioned. British tempest 6th gen should be rolled out soon for its maiden flight. I love the older jets like The Lightning intercepter and my favourite has to be the mighty Gr4 Tornado
Check out the time an F22 intercepted two Iranian F4's that were trying to chase down a US drone. The F22 hung around them long enough to visually verify their ordinance from less then 100 yards away without the F4's knowing they were there until the F22's literally pulled up next to them like a Nissan Altima trying to race a soccer mom in a minivan. The F22 pilot just told the Iranian pilot, "You should go home". Go home they did.
There is a group here on TH-cam that plays DCS doing historical combats with modern tech. I watch them take the F-22 right up behind a 4th gen fighter, fly in formation with it, and dance around behind it for a while. They call themselves The Grim Reapers - Beautiful Humans in Sexy Machines.
Im at the south end of fort hill airforce base as I type this. If an f35 is near enough for you to hear it, you are not the target. These things are incredible and the flight patterns and maneuvers they can achieve are super fun to watch and awe inspiring at times. I think someone else mentioned this but that 360 view you were talking about is in the helmets of the f35 and f22s. I think the Apache helicopters have something similar too. But all have thermal imaging and all sorts of information on their hud. 🎉
There's actually 3 more jet fighters (in my knowledge) that can land and takeoff vertically, the Soviet Yak-38 and Yak-141, the British Harrier (AV-8 on US service) and the latest one, the F-35
WW1 biplanes like the Fokker Dr1 and the Sopwith Camel along with WW2 planes like those he Horten HO-229 and the ME-262, P51 mustang, Spitfire, are fun also, something to consider :)
The videos you post about military weaponry are incredible. These weapons are only what they let us know about... We can only imagine what we can't see or know about.
It will NOT be unmanned, there are too many digital risks with having a completely unmanned air force. As a pilot that deals with autopilot systems, and avionics I can tell you we have major reliability issues even with all of the super stringent quality control measures that the FAA has in place for certifications of systems.
The trouble with the f-35 development was mostly about parts compatibility between the A B and C models, or more accurately lack of parts compatibility which lead to huge cost overruns and delays.
The difference between 5th gen and 6th seems to be that the 6th gen fighter will have even smaller radar cross section plus massively improved networking and integration of new technologies. Things like data sharing with other military systems and weapons platforms, etc would enable much more granular control over the battlespace. Things like the Pilot's helmet ability to display the aircraft's integrated cameras and sensors enables really improved situational awareness for the pilot. (Add more automation of the aircraft systems and you leave the pilot more free to focus on other tasks.)
You should watch Sandboxx covering the cargo planes packing cruise missiles in palettes and/or making the A-10 pack spoofing cruise missiles to deplete enemy air defenses
Okay, so I've been following this pretty closely for a few years and I believe that these will be optionally manned. I would wager that the reason for that being is that they're already developing. Autonomous drones such as the loyal wingman. I believe I read or watched somewhere that the idea would be to have the NG AD fighters optionally manned with backup drones such as the loyal wing man so that in theory we can have a one-man squadron
That was exactly what I said, as soon as he said "He knows. He knows they have UFO's." I was like "of course he knows. He's an alien." I mean look at him.
There is one other fixed wing aircraft that can do a VTOL and that is the British designed Harrier that is to be replaced by the F35. Oh, just so you know there was zero issue with the sound.
It kind of depends on where you draw the lines to what counts as VTOL and what counts for the take off and landing for that. Technically every helicopter is a VTOL as that's kind of their schtick. I think it's better to say the Harrier was the only other mass produced jet fighter with VTOL capabilities. I mean, there's also the Osprey with tiltrotors that technically is also a VTOL, but I know what you mean. I'm pretty sure there were like 5 "different" Harrier 2's; the only difference being who made them. Same design and same specs, but there's like the original, BAE, then McDonald Douglas also made one, and a couple more made the same jet. It's like the M4 Sherman, generally the same tank, just other places making it how they best could. Minor differences, generally the same performance.
@@jtl-08 Is a Yak in the US inventory or made here? The F35 and the Harrier are. Just so you know these two air craft were built in the US and being the video was about American air craft it why would there be a russian one even brought up. Not to mention the Yak 38 is no longer in service.
8:32 well don’t I have exciting news for you 😂 the F-35 already has that/something like that. The F-35's Distributed Aperture System (DAS) streams real-time imagery from six infrared cameras mounted around the aircraft to the helmet, which enables pilots to “look through” the airframe.
You misunderstood something. By dividing the production across many companies you minimize the risk of any single point of failure being catastrophic (ex: their factory catches on fire and burns to the ground) but doing so also maximizes the risk that some -pint of failure causes a delay - since you’ve maximized the number of potential failure points you necessarily maximize the odds of any one of them failing. This is a good strategy when you can tolerate delays since you’re guaranteed to get them, but a bad strategy when any delay is fatal - it’s the same idea as putting all your eggs in one basket. If you need everything to be delivered or you get zero value then putting everything into one modest risk option is actually the best strategy, while if incremental production really does yield incremental value then you should spread that risk around. This is essentially the Japanese strategy during WW2 both with the concept of Kontai Kessen (the “decisive battle” doctrine) and why they attacked Pearl Harbor - the idea was that they couldn’t win a war of attrition against the US, they knew that, and needed to remove the US as a combatant all at once. This is captured in the quote by Admiral Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleet in response to his attack on Pearl Harbor and the news that they hadn’t sunk the US aircraft carriers (translation as used at the end of Tora Tora Tora), “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
I have been studying Air Force Aviation since the 70"s. I have seen a F-22 take off from Plant 42 in Palmdale, Ca. The videos that are on TH-cam are for public information and what our rivals know we have. The fifth generation planes ( F-22, F-35) where public knowledge from the competition between companies thru the building and testing of the aircraft. You will find speculation of what may be out there, but no definitive proof. Companies like DARPA and Lockheed Martin are set up to have , on the drawing board, 25 years beyond what we see today. Rest assured that the USA already has , for a better lack of terms, aircraft, in the air and used in missions that is more far advanced than anything you or I could imagine. Somewhere on TH-cam is a short video of what looks to be a black triangle object hovering over a target in Operation Desert Storm with what would appear to be a Howitzer type cannon coming out the side and firing on an enemy target. I love your channel as I am able to watch everything I know about the various aircraft thru your eyes and see the same reactions as I had when learning about them.
Do one on the f14 , the only fighter better than the f15 before the f22a. Btw the f35 helmet has the tec you said . Pilots can look through the ground/floor or any part of the plane. So the tech is already being used.
The F-14 is not better than the eagle its slower, burns more fuel, is a maintainers nightmare, more expensive, less advanced avionics and HUD, less visibility, less advanced radar. i love the tomcat but its not better than the eagle.
The F-14 Tomcat is a literal downgrade in almost every aspect in comparison to the F-15. That is not to say the Tomcat is a bad plane, because it isn't (It's also beautiful), but it is not better.
One of the goals for 6th Gen is to be hypersonic. There has been a DARPA black project for over a decade. Most likely that is the "technology demonstrator" flight he was referring to. Can you imaging being boots-on-the-ground, using your new fire control sites to range an enemy position, that data gets distributed, and two hypersonic AI fighters scream in two minutes later with one conducting electronic suppression while the other puts warheads on foreheads?
The trouble with the development of the F-35 is a long story. Short version: the air force brass took the "versatility is great" principle and went a little overboard with it, deciding that they wanted to develop one aircraft that would be capable of doing air superiority, bombing runs, and also close air support, for four branches of the military (army, navy, air force, marines). As one might expect, this lead to a protracted development process, characterized by delays and cost overruns, as the engineers tried to balance conflicting requirements. Fortunately for all concerned, they didn't try to throw in cargo and aerial refueling and coast guard search-and-rescue as well, or the program might never have completed. Certain physical realities being what they are, some of the goals of the program were never met, but compromises were eventually allowed, that enabled the program to finish and produce usable aircraft. So instead of a single aircraft there are three distinct versions of the F-35, none of which can really do close air support (they can do air *strikes* but cannot really loiter with ground troops), and it's not going to replace long-range bombers either. It can do air superiority (albeit not as well as the F-22) and can carry a reasonable amount of ordnance for ground strikes as long as you don't compare it to things like the B-1. When all is said and done, the resulting planes are good enough to be quite useful, but there were significant delays and higher-than-necessary fiscal expenditure for the development process, compared to how things might have gone if the requirements had been more reasonable in the first place. Also, there's no new CAS aircraft, even though the budget for that was absorbed, so the aging A-10 has received some upgrades to eek a few more years of service out of it than were originally intended, which kicks the can down the road a bit. For more details, the search term you want is actually JSF ("Joint Strike Fighter"), which was the name of the program during development. It's a very long way from being the worst disaster in the history of military development programs, but yeah, there were some issues. Honestly, if you get into actual conflict with an F-22 when you're in a fourth-generation (or earlier) fighter, it probably wouldn't be terrifying, because you likely wouldn't see it coming. When they decide *not* to kill you, and instead suddenly appear right next to you and say boo, that's when you wet your pants. Ultimately, if it were possible, you'd want to design fighters that can accelerate and change directions so fast (and if necessary do so continually) that it's physically impossible for an outside observer to reliably aim at them, because in the time it takes for radio waves or light or whatever to travel from the object to you, and for your response to get back to them (even if it's a laser), the fighter's direction and speed will have changed enough to meaningfully throw off any estimate you can make of its position. I'm not sure if that's actually possible to do inside an atmosphere, though, and even if it is, we're a few generations of fighters away from being able to build such a thing. But it's good to have long-term goals to work toward. The UFOs aren't sixth-gen air-superiority fighters. They're experimental drones and signal jammers and cyberwarfare equipment and whatnot. Among other things, a fifth-gen or later fighter wouldn't keep getting spotted by civilians when it doesn't intend to be. Fourth-gen fighters have trouble detecting them even at relatively close range, when they don't want to be seen. You need, like, multi-source broad-spectrum active lidar or something to reliably see them. Splitting apart development, production, and maintenance should eliminate the kinds of schenanighans that plagued the Zumwalt class.
Japan was in talks to purchase various aspects (design, radar, stealth composites) from the aircraft that lost out to the F-22. That aircraft was the YF-23. You can see by certain design aspects, especially in the delta wings, and the way certain designs of the tail(s), it is likely they at least were able to procure some of the stuff the YF-23 platform had, or would have had if it won the ATF contract. In many ways, including stealth, it was a superior aircraft to the F-22, but was more expensive and harder to maintain.
Finally somebody reacting to the new NGAD Fighter program. The 6th gen stealth fighter jet that can be manned or un manned. Now go look at the Loyal Wingman Stealth Drone that will fly alongside the NGAD. Each NGAD will have 2 that the pilot can even control from the NGAD.
Russia and China are still struggling to make a good 5th generation fighter while the USA has 2 and supplying allies with one of them. This is why it's good to be friends with the USA because some of their allies are getting to skip that development phase of making a 5th generation and going straight to a 6th to try and catch up to the US's development cycle.
To nerd out for a minute. F22 and F35 is good for blocking high band frequencies which is used to lock on them but low band can still see them there. B2 stealth bomber blockes both so it would be hard to see them and to lock onto them. The 6th gen fighter jet works like the stealth bomber. Hard to see them and to lock on.
You: “Oh my god, make it without a cockpit, that’d be so cool, just have like screens on the inside.” You five seconds later: “Whoa, what happened to my audio? Weird.” That’s why the US military doesn’t rely on technology alone.
Definitely makes you wonder about the future tech that will be available. I cant even imagine what form that type of tech will even be. Or will they just increase the ability of current tech?
The F-35 has had a lot of problems. Starting with cost, it cost $60,000 per hour to fly. There are also issues with the O2 system, and the automated pilot ejection system. Most notable, a Marine Corp. pilot was ejected over South Carolina by his F-35.
Yeah definitely do a video on the F-18 Hornet also love to see you do one on your airforces Typhoon maybe the Russian SU-27 and all its varients.... God I could leave a list a page long more if I included some Helicopters oh another one to check out is the AV 8B Harrier also a VTOL that came long before the F-35
I wonder if it will be quieter then F22 I think is the loudest when it comes to traveling not braking the sound barrier that doesn't count it's when it's starting up to move when it's travel so fast it breaks the sound barrier because noise still matter for troops on the ground the opps or not doesn't matter because noise still matter like imagine an electrical jet that would be insane
The 6th. Gen. Is already out. It's the SR72, or Son of Blackbird. It will fly at over mach 6, twice the speed of the original Blackbird, and will shoot lasers.
The US already has an effective energy weapon on one of our ships that has engaged and destroyed a target. It's large and expensive but really cheap to fire. Not small enough to mount on a small fighter yet though.
I can’t remember where I saw it but I know I saw some sort of British 6th generation one. I think it was BAE systems . Can someone please tell me where I saw this
I think you are right about the UFO concept being in next generation aircraft. I figure they will easily be able to go into earth orbit and back down into the atmosphere for more conventional purposes. I predict extreme speeds and extreme maneuvering, coms systems second to none. We don’t hear much (yet) about the US Space Force but I am certain they are very busy right now.
If you are into how the f22 moves alot of its advanced handling came from a NASA test f15, should watch a video on the McDonnell Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD.
There is a tank that has nothing but screens in it all around you like VR. I think it's a medium tank used for infantry support. Damn, I need to look back up the video so I can't quote the title. Anyway the video is out there. And we already have fighter support drones just like in the beginning of this video.
F35 is still currently plagued by software bugs and issues - it has the most lines of software and code in it than anything that came before it (makes sense when you think about how much tech is in it and how it's communicating with everything else around it). More lines of code - more chances for something to break. According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) "The F35 program is now more than a decade behind schedule and $183bn over original cost estimates." due to technical issues.
Great video. Would love an fa18 SUPER hornet video. One of the sexiest planes ever made, plus it’s the definition of a multi tool airplane. Better attack aircraft than the f16 and f15 and still holds its own as a dog fighter.
Honestly, I don't see a 6th gen fighter having the canards shown in the video since they compromise stealth. Actually, I don't envision next-generation fighters having any flight control surfaces -- directing bleed air from the engines to operate boundary layer controls would give you a simpler, stronger, stealthier surface and should even enhance low-speed maneuvering.
You should check out the Dark Star plane that is actually real. Everyone thought it was just a rumor because the new Top Gun movie but then it turns out, yep. It's actually a real thing. Same with the new B-21. I can't wait until we figure out how to manipulate gravity.
So it’s easy, and automated rear firing Vulcan style 20 mm automated target pod where the pilot doesn’t. If a plane gets behind it, it just gets wasted, at least medium range missiles that as soon as you’re locked on and someone gets tone on you, they fire back on their tone, following it straight back to the plane, so they’re going to see that thing and break but they’re probably gonna panic in the moment not turn off the radar lock and all the shit and get blown up. Give them more counter measures
During the first Red Flag Excersize (US and Allied air excersize -largest in the world) the first time with the new Raptor, the Raptor was put up agsisnt 10,..TEN 4++ Generation fighters and it succeeded in getting 10 kills with the Red Air pilots (some of the best pilots in earth) saying they never saw him once , no warnings, indications, visual site or radar signature of anything in the air until locked missiles are inbound. They said it was such a helpless feeling being hunted by an enemy with capabilities you don’t have and its ability to track and lock on multiple targets at once meant it could eliminate several in seconds. The US Air Force says the strength and ability of the F22 is that the enemy never knows they are in danger , whether air to ground missions or going after an enemy jet or any target on the ground behind enemy lines, they don’t get any warning THE most deadly fighter on earth is comming for them , knows where they are and stalking them from far beyond visual range . They go from having a normal day , to a missle is locked in in a split second.
Yeah he needs to look up all the problems we had with the F-35. We were selling them with known problems at first. I imagine the new sixth gen. will have a lot of the same teething problems too and will not be truly functional until years after it is out there. But the next gen has to be able to fly fast and stay stealthy. That's the problem of the Raptor. Faster it flies, less stealthy it is because of heat and just rain can start washing off the stealth coating on it.
Unmanned would be excellent. Factoring out the human leaves a lot of room to miniaturize, reduce training costs, ability to take more risk, demoralize the enemy, work as a swarm at a rate much faster than evolved apes talking, and generally make decisions before a human would even form a thought for action. I actually think 6th gen being manned limits it.
I think they must go drone. I hurd the F22 was so maneuverable it could kill the pilot. They had to nuder the maneuverabileatty to keep it with in human endurance. The next gen must be free to maneuver without restrictions.
I think that the 6th generation of aircraft will be optionally manned, or mixed manned/unmanned squadrons, and true unmanned squadrons will probably be the 7th generation. Just my opinion!
I wonder if an F-22’s full maneuvering capability has been done by a pilot or if a “drone” version would be capable of more because G-force and what not isn’t a health/safety risk for the pilot?
The F-35 had all kinds of software issues when it was being developed, it's better now but it's still being perfected. It's still not capable of being an air superiority fighter like the F-22 but it does have air to air capability.
The f35 can do the whole look through the plane thing, also target and shoot that way. That's 5rh Gen tech. 6th is even better stealth, a grain of sand cross section. Laser weapons. Drone wingman. Better missiles.
Check out project Mayhem. It's crazy how allies rather team up in 3 different groups to develop a 6th generation program but no one seeks to join US on 6th generation programs. No one wanted to join US with R&D for the F-22 until it was going into production, that's when a few countries were interested in buying F-22s but US said no and passed an amendment banning the sale of F-22s to foreign countries.
A pilot who was qualified on both the F15 and F22 said that a dogfight between the two was, "like a boxing match between two world champion heavyweights, but one of them just happens to be totally invisible."
The f22 is not the only fighter jet that can land and take off vertical.
@@RexDanford-yx7wr The f22 is not capable of VTOL at all... what are you on about?
@@Flakey86 your right. my bad It's the thunderbolt that dose.
@@RexDanford-yx7wr all good!
I recommend Sandboxx! He’s a great defense industry journalist and a lot of his videos cover the next generation of airplanes, missles, etc!
I second this! He gives awesome insights to what the defense department is up to.
The Sandboxx "Real History of the SR-72" is the best video for a beginner; all his info about next-gen aerospace is great and the SR-72 is the tip of that spear.
The video "could US NAVY patents explain UAPs" by Sandboxx is a must
@molonlabe7767 It does the same thing to me.
The best Sandbox. Maybe he has some copyrights. I never seen a reaction to him
The f35 helmet has the see through airframe you mentioned. British tempest 6th gen should be rolled out soon for its maiden flight. I love the older jets like The Lightning intercepter and my favourite has to be the mighty Gr4 Tornado
Yep, I saw a video on the F35s helmet it is very cool.
Check out the time an F22 intercepted two Iranian F4's that were trying to chase down a US drone. The F22 hung around them long enough to visually verify their ordinance from less then 100 yards away without the F4's knowing they were there until the F22's literally pulled up next to them like a Nissan Altima trying to race a soccer mom in a minivan. The F22 pilot just told the Iranian pilot, "You should go home". Go home they did.
There is a group here on TH-cam that plays DCS doing historical combats with modern tech. I watch them take the F-22 right up behind a 4th gen fighter, fly in formation with it, and dance around behind it for a while. They call themselves The Grim Reapers - Beautiful Humans in Sexy Machines.
@@ThinGibbons Yeah, that is why they call it a simulator. Good description of how one works. Good job mate!
Im at the south end of fort hill airforce base as I type this.
If an f35 is near enough for you to hear it, you are not the target. These things are incredible and the flight patterns and maneuvers they can achieve are super fun to watch and awe inspiring at times.
I think someone else mentioned this but that 360 view you were talking about is in the helmets of the f35 and f22s. I think the Apache helicopters have something similar too. But all have thermal imaging and all sorts of information on their hud. 🎉
The F-35B can land vertically and we use to have the Harrier which was the first to be able to hover and vertically take-off and land
There's actually 3 more jet fighters (in my knowledge) that can land and takeoff vertically, the Soviet Yak-38 and Yak-141, the British Harrier (AV-8 on US service) and the latest one, the F-35
WW1 biplanes like the Fokker Dr1 and the Sopwith Camel along with WW2 planes like those he Horten HO-229 and the ME-262, P51 mustang, Spitfire, are fun also, something to consider :)
The videos you post about military weaponry are incredible. These weapons are only what they let us know about... We can only imagine what we can't see or know about.
It will NOT be unmanned, there are too many digital risks with having a completely unmanned air force. As a pilot that deals with autopilot systems, and avionics I can tell you we have major reliability issues even with all of the super stringent quality control measures that the FAA has in place for certifications of systems.
The trouble with the f-35 development was mostly about parts compatibility between the A B and C models, or more accurately lack of parts compatibility which lead to huge cost overruns and delays.
Im glad i came back to you channel after a while, ive loved your vids.
3:00 would also perfectly fit into Bioshock as is thanks to the genre of dieselpunk
The difference between 5th gen and 6th seems to be that the 6th gen fighter will have even smaller radar cross section plus massively improved networking and integration of new technologies. Things like data sharing with other military systems and weapons platforms, etc would enable much more granular control over the battlespace. Things like the Pilot's helmet ability to display the aircraft's integrated cameras and sensors enables really improved situational awareness for the pilot. (Add more automation of the aircraft systems and you leave the pilot more free to focus on other tasks.)
The closest I got to an airplane was a warthog. It flew over my head when I was out camping at tree Heights. Wow amazing
Suggestions: remake the reaction to the video "top 7 badass plane of the us military". Also take a look at the UK's 6th generation Tempest fighter.
You should watch Sandboxx covering the cargo planes packing cruise missiles in palettes and/or making the A-10 pack spoofing cruise missiles to deplete enemy air defenses
Okay, so I've been following this pretty closely for a few years and I believe that these will be optionally manned. I would wager that the reason for that being is that they're already developing. Autonomous drones such as the loyal wingman. I believe I read or watched somewhere that the idea would be to have the NG AD fighters optionally manned with backup drones such as the loyal wing man so that in theory we can have a one-man squadron
Roper himself as an alien. That’s what I’m saying he’s an alien.
That was exactly what I said, as soon as he said "He knows. He knows they have UFO's." I was like "of course he knows. He's an alien." I mean look at him.
He looks quite spacey
When your audio cut out, I bet it’s the government trying to stop you from talking about aliens, you’re on them
There is one other fixed wing aircraft that can do a VTOL and that is the British designed Harrier that is to be replaced by the F35. Oh, just so you know there was zero issue with the sound.
Also know as the AV-8B harrier 2
It kind of depends on where you draw the lines to what counts as VTOL and what counts for the take off and landing for that. Technically every helicopter is a VTOL as that's kind of their schtick. I think it's better to say the Harrier was the only other mass produced jet fighter with VTOL capabilities. I mean, there's also the Osprey with tiltrotors that technically is also a VTOL, but I know what you mean. I'm pretty sure there were like 5 "different" Harrier 2's; the only difference being who made them. Same design and same specs, but there's like the original, BAE, then McDonald Douglas also made one, and a couple more made the same jet. It's like the M4 Sherman, generally the same tank, just other places making it how they best could. Minor differences, generally the same performance.
@@steeljawX How about fixed wing I will just add it to my post, ten there is no confusion.
the Russian Yak-38 is a fixed wing VTOL aircraft.
@@jtl-08 Is a Yak in the US inventory or made here? The F35 and the Harrier are. Just so you know these two air craft were built in the US and being the video was about American air craft it why would there be a russian one even brought up. Not to mention the Yak 38 is no longer in service.
8:32 well don’t I have exciting news for you 😂 the F-35 already has that/something like that.
The F-35's Distributed Aperture System (DAS) streams real-time imagery from six infrared cameras mounted around the aircraft to the helmet, which enables pilots to “look through” the airframe.
The F-35 already has the ability to “look through the aircraft”
You misunderstood something. By dividing the production across many companies you minimize the risk of any single point of failure being catastrophic (ex: their factory catches on fire and burns to the ground) but doing so also maximizes the risk that some -pint of failure causes a delay - since you’ve maximized the number of potential failure points you necessarily maximize the odds of any one of them failing.
This is a good strategy when you can tolerate delays since you’re guaranteed to get them, but a bad strategy when any delay is fatal - it’s the same idea as putting all your eggs in one basket. If you need everything to be delivered or you get zero value then putting everything into one modest risk option is actually the best strategy, while if incremental production really does yield incremental value then you should spread that risk around.
This is essentially the Japanese strategy during WW2 both with the concept of Kontai Kessen (the “decisive battle” doctrine) and why they attacked Pearl Harbor - the idea was that they couldn’t win a war of attrition against the US, they knew that, and needed to remove the US as a combatant all at once. This is captured in the quote by Admiral Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleet in response to his attack on Pearl Harbor and the news that they hadn’t sunk the US aircraft carriers (translation as used at the end of Tora Tora Tora), “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
I have been studying Air Force Aviation since the 70"s. I have seen a F-22 take off from Plant 42 in Palmdale, Ca. The videos that are on TH-cam are for public information and what our rivals know we have. The fifth generation planes ( F-22, F-35) where public knowledge from the competition between companies thru the building and testing of the aircraft. You will find speculation of what may be out there, but no definitive proof. Companies like DARPA and Lockheed Martin are set up to have , on the drawing board, 25 years beyond what we see today. Rest assured that the USA already has , for a better lack of terms, aircraft, in the air and used in missions that is more far advanced than anything you or I could imagine. Somewhere on TH-cam is a short video of what looks to be a black triangle object hovering over a target in Operation Desert Storm with what would appear to be a Howitzer type cannon coming out the side and firing on an enemy target. I love your channel as I am able to watch everything I know about the various aircraft thru your eyes and see the same reactions as I had when learning about them.
the AV-8B Harrier can also land vertically. so its 2 planes as far as I know.
Do one on the f14 , the only fighter better than the f15 before the f22a. Btw the f35 helmet has the tec you said . Pilots can look through the ground/floor or any part of the plane. So the tech is already being used.
The F-14 is not better than the eagle its slower, burns more fuel, is a maintainers nightmare, more expensive, less advanced avionics and HUD, less visibility, less advanced radar. i love the tomcat but its not better than the eagle.
The F-14 Tomcat is a literal downgrade in almost every aspect in comparison to the F-15. That is not to say the Tomcat is a bad plane, because it isn't (It's also beautiful), but it is not better.
No, the Harrier can also landing vertically. USMC & Royal Navy use them
The F-35 is known as "Fat Amy" by pilots; "You don't fly her, you ride her!" (like a horse).
My favorite fantasy concept 7th Gen aircraft is the ADF-11F Raven and it's other variants I wanna see that irl
One of the goals for 6th Gen is to be hypersonic. There has been a DARPA black project for over a decade. Most likely that is the "technology demonstrator" flight he was referring to. Can you imaging being boots-on-the-ground, using your new fire control sites to range an enemy position, that data gets distributed, and two hypersonic AI fighters scream in two minutes later with one conducting electronic suppression while the other puts warheads on foreheads?
The trouble with the development of the F-35 is a long story. Short version: the air force brass took the "versatility is great" principle and went a little overboard with it, deciding that they wanted to develop one aircraft that would be capable of doing air superiority, bombing runs, and also close air support, for four branches of the military (army, navy, air force, marines). As one might expect, this lead to a protracted development process, characterized by delays and cost overruns, as the engineers tried to balance conflicting requirements. Fortunately for all concerned, they didn't try to throw in cargo and aerial refueling and coast guard search-and-rescue as well, or the program might never have completed. Certain physical realities being what they are, some of the goals of the program were never met, but compromises were eventually allowed, that enabled the program to finish and produce usable aircraft. So instead of a single aircraft there are three distinct versions of the F-35, none of which can really do close air support (they can do air *strikes* but cannot really loiter with ground troops), and it's not going to replace long-range bombers either. It can do air superiority (albeit not as well as the F-22) and can carry a reasonable amount of ordnance for ground strikes as long as you don't compare it to things like the B-1. When all is said and done, the resulting planes are good enough to be quite useful, but there were significant delays and higher-than-necessary fiscal expenditure for the development process, compared to how things might have gone if the requirements had been more reasonable in the first place. Also, there's no new CAS aircraft, even though the budget for that was absorbed, so the aging A-10 has received some upgrades to eek a few more years of service out of it than were originally intended, which kicks the can down the road a bit. For more details, the search term you want is actually JSF ("Joint Strike Fighter"), which was the name of the program during development. It's a very long way from being the worst disaster in the history of military development programs, but yeah, there were some issues.
Honestly, if you get into actual conflict with an F-22 when you're in a fourth-generation (or earlier) fighter, it probably wouldn't be terrifying, because you likely wouldn't see it coming. When they decide *not* to kill you, and instead suddenly appear right next to you and say boo, that's when you wet your pants.
Ultimately, if it were possible, you'd want to design fighters that can accelerate and change directions so fast (and if necessary do so continually) that it's physically impossible for an outside observer to reliably aim at them, because in the time it takes for radio waves or light or whatever to travel from the object to you, and for your response to get back to them (even if it's a laser), the fighter's direction and speed will have changed enough to meaningfully throw off any estimate you can make of its position. I'm not sure if that's actually possible to do inside an atmosphere, though, and even if it is, we're a few generations of fighters away from being able to build such a thing. But it's good to have long-term goals to work toward.
The UFOs aren't sixth-gen air-superiority fighters. They're experimental drones and signal jammers and cyberwarfare equipment and whatnot. Among other things, a fifth-gen or later fighter wouldn't keep getting spotted by civilians when it doesn't intend to be. Fourth-gen fighters have trouble detecting them even at relatively close range, when they don't want to be seen. You need, like, multi-source broad-spectrum active lidar or something to reliably see them.
Splitting apart development, production, and maintenance should eliminate the kinds of schenanighans that plagued the Zumwalt class.
Japan was in talks to purchase various aspects (design, radar, stealth composites) from the aircraft that lost out to the F-22. That aircraft was the YF-23. You can see by certain design aspects, especially in the delta wings, and the way certain designs of the tail(s), it is likely they at least were able to procure some of the stuff the YF-23 platform had, or would have had if it won the ATF contract. In many ways, including stealth, it was a superior aircraft to the F-22, but was more expensive and harder to maintain.
Finally somebody reacting to the new NGAD Fighter program. The 6th gen stealth fighter jet that can be manned or un manned. Now go look at the Loyal Wingman Stealth Drone that will fly alongside the NGAD. Each NGAD will have 2 that the pilot can even control from the NGAD.
NGAD & FA-XX are different 6th generation programs. Just like project Mayhem is another one.
She need one that will fly directly into space. We’ll have a threat of knocking down satellites.
Where does it end? When it's a perfectly aerodynamic saucer.
Robot wingmen controlled by a human flyer.
Russia and China are still struggling to make a good 5th generation fighter while the USA has 2 and supplying allies with one of them. This is why it's good to be friends with the USA because some of their allies are getting to skip that development phase of making a 5th generation and going straight to a 6th to try and catch up to the US's development cycle.
To nerd out for a minute. F22 and F35 is good for blocking high band frequencies which is used to lock on them but low band can still see them there. B2 stealth bomber blockes both so it would be hard to see them and to lock onto them. The 6th gen fighter jet works like the stealth bomber. Hard to see them and to lock on.
The new F%35 helmet hud can see virtually see through the bottom of the aircraft 360 degree
F22 Is OUT of this World to see at any air show!
I was gonna say AI copilots by Gen 7, but it’s AI wingmen now.
I suggest you do a video on the F-111 next, perhaps. Really cool jet.
You: “Oh my god, make it without a cockpit, that’d be so cool, just have like screens on the inside.”
You five seconds later: “Whoa, what happened to my audio? Weird.”
That’s why the US military doesn’t rely on technology alone.
Definitely makes you wonder about the future tech that will be available.
I cant even imagine what form that type of tech will even be.
Or will they just increase the ability of current tech?
The F-35 has had a lot of problems. Starting with cost, it cost $60,000 per hour to fly. There are also issues with the O2 system, and the automated pilot ejection system. Most notable, a Marine Corp. pilot was ejected over South Carolina by his F-35.
IT IS ALL GOOD!!!
You wouldn't be terrified. You wouldn't know it was there. I kid; I kid.
Yes please do a video on most advanced keys in each category
6th gen: cloaking devices and teleportation.
And you can look through the F-35... with the $460,000 helmet
The f35 helmet already lets you look through the aircraft
Yeah definitely do a video on the F-18 Hornet also love to see you do one on your airforces Typhoon maybe the Russian SU-27 and all its varients.... God I could leave a list a page long more if I included some Helicopters oh another one to check out is the AV 8B Harrier also a VTOL that came long before the F-35
I wonder if it will be quieter then F22 I think is the loudest when it comes to traveling not braking the sound barrier that doesn't count it's when it's starting up to move when it's travel so fast it breaks the sound barrier because noise still matter for troops on the ground the opps or not doesn't matter because noise still matter like imagine an electrical jet that would be insane
The added thing had got to be un manned capability as being able to withstane more g's reallt as much as the plane can handle is OP
The 6th. Gen. Is already out. It's the SR72, or Son of Blackbird. It will fly at over mach 6, twice the speed of the original Blackbird, and will shoot lasers.
Thr helmet ur talking about where u can see 360 degrees, is exactly what the f35 helmets do
The F35 helmets allow you to see through the plane, target and shoot in any direction
Also interesting to note the Air Force has already said that the F35 will be tjr last fully manned fighter going forward
Hope u feel better brother
Filthy casual using wireless headphones ;D Will never let go of my DT 1770 Pros.
I see the 6th as the planes and AI from the movie "Stealth". Give that movie a watch.
The US already has an effective energy weapon on one of our ships that has engaged and destroyed a target. It's large and expensive but really cheap to fire. Not small enough to mount on a small fighter yet though.
I can’t remember where I saw it but I know I saw some sort of British 6th generation one. I think it was BAE systems . Can someone please tell me where I saw this
I found it. It’s called the tempest
I think you are right about the UFO concept being in next generation aircraft. I figure they will easily be able to go into earth orbit and back down into the atmosphere for more conventional purposes. I predict extreme speeds and extreme maneuvering, coms systems second to none. We don’t hear much (yet) about the US Space Force but I am certain they are very busy right now.
I would recommend the f18 video fro DARK SKIES. Really well done
If you are into how the f22 moves alot of its advanced handling came from a NASA test f15, should watch a video on the McDonnell Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD.
There is a tank that has nothing but screens in it all around you like VR. I think it's a medium tank used for infantry support. Damn, I need to look back up the video so I can't quote the title. Anyway the video is out there. And we already have fighter support drones just like in the beginning of this video.
YES do a video on the F/A-18 but make sure it’s the Superhornet and not the “retired” Hornet.
F35 is still currently plagued by software bugs and issues - it has the most lines of software and code in it than anything that came before it (makes sense when you think about how much tech is in it and how it's communicating with everything else around it). More lines of code - more chances for something to break. According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) "The F35 program is now more than a decade behind schedule and $183bn over original cost estimates." due to technical issues.
You would love the chrome F-22 & F-35
Sandoxx News has a video specifically on F-15 variants
U mention that u have full 360 view I believe they have that currently on the f35 and f22 with their helmets
Great video. Would love an fa18 SUPER hornet video. One of the sexiest planes ever made, plus it’s the definition of a multi tool airplane. Better attack aircraft than the f16 and f15 and still holds its own as a dog fighter.
That plane has flown in Nevada at the test grounds
You can buy cars with a basic version of 360 degree view video now.
You’ve been jammed…..hehehehe
Do they even understand the NGAD and FA/XX are 2 totally different programs, one to supply 6th gen fighters to the Air Force (NGAD), and Navy (FA/XX)?
Honestly, I don't see a 6th gen fighter having the canards shown in the video since they compromise stealth. Actually, I don't envision next-generation fighters having any flight control surfaces -- directing bleed air from the engines to operate boundary layer controls would give you a simpler, stronger, stealthier surface and should even enhance low-speed maneuvering.
You should check out the Dark Star plane that is actually real. Everyone thought it was just a rumor because the new Top Gun movie but then it turns out, yep. It's actually a real thing. Same with the new B-21. I can't wait until we figure out how to manipulate gravity.
We’re getting new toys!😁
The thing about the US military most don't know is if they are talking about it, then they already have it.
So it’s easy, and automated rear firing Vulcan style 20 mm automated target pod where the pilot doesn’t. If a plane gets behind it, it just gets wasted, at least medium range missiles that as soon as you’re locked on and someone gets tone on you, they fire back on their tone, following it straight back to the plane, so they’re going to see that thing and break but they’re probably gonna panic in the moment not turn off the radar lock and all the shit and get blown up. Give them more counter measures
They basically made wonder woman’s invisible jet!
During the first Red Flag Excersize (US and Allied air excersize -largest in the world) the first time with the new Raptor, the Raptor was put up agsisnt 10,..TEN 4++ Generation fighters and it succeeded in getting 10 kills with the Red Air pilots (some of the best pilots in earth) saying they never saw him once , no warnings, indications, visual site or radar signature of anything in the air until locked missiles are inbound. They said it was such a helpless feeling being hunted by an enemy with capabilities you don’t have and its ability to track and lock on multiple targets at once meant it could eliminate several in seconds. The US Air Force says the strength and ability of the F22 is that the enemy never knows they are in danger , whether air to ground missions or going after an enemy jet or any target on the ground behind enemy lines, they don’t get any warning THE most deadly fighter on earth is comming for them , knows where they are and stalking them from far beyond visual range . They go from having a normal day , to a missle is locked in in a split second.
2nd :(( | if you have I have no idea, but react to the new RAF Tempest jet.
Yeah he needs to look up all the problems we had with the F-35. We were selling them with known problems at first. I imagine the new sixth gen. will have a lot of the same teething problems too and will not be truly functional until years after it is out there. But the next gen has to be able to fly fast and stay stealthy. That's the problem of the Raptor. Faster it flies, less stealthy it is because of heat and just rain can start washing off the stealth coating on it.
Thiats what the new modern head gear they wear does in the f35 I’m not sure if the 22 does I forget 8:40
12:21 harrier can also do that.And also russian Yak-141
And technically the Osprey though its prop.
Unmanned would be excellent. Factoring out the human leaves a lot of room to miniaturize, reduce training costs, ability to take more risk, demoralize the enemy, work as a swarm at a rate much faster than evolved apes talking, and generally make decisions before a human would even form a thought for action. I actually think 6th gen being manned limits it.
They have the see through vision now
I think they must go drone. I hurd the F22 was so maneuverable it could kill the pilot. They had to nuder the maneuverabileatty to keep it with in human endurance. The next gen must be free to maneuver without restrictions.
theres two other jets that can land vertically like the F-35! theres the Harrier (a british jet) and the Yak-38 (russian jet)
I think that the 6th generation of aircraft will be optionally manned, or mixed manned/unmanned squadrons, and true unmanned squadrons will probably be the 7th generation. Just my opinion!
I wonder if an F-22’s full maneuvering capability has been done by a pilot or if a “drone” version would be capable of more because G-force and what not isn’t a health/safety risk for the pilot?
The F-35 had all kinds of software issues when it was being developed, it's better now but it's still being perfected. It's still not capable of being an air superiority fighter like the F-22 but it does have air to air capability.
The f35 can do the whole look through the plane thing, also target and shoot that way. That's 5rh Gen tech. 6th is even better stealth, a grain of sand cross section. Laser weapons. Drone wingman. Better missiles.
Check out project Mayhem. It's crazy how allies rather team up in 3 different groups to develop a 6th generation program but no one seeks to join US on 6th generation programs. No one wanted to join US with R&D for the F-22 until it was going into production, that's when a few countries were interested in buying F-22s but US said no and passed an amendment banning the sale of F-22s to foreign countries.
Maybe active stealth? A cloaking device? Can't wait to see!
They could have called it the FA-FO...missed opportunity there!