{"id":23193,"date":"2020-11-05T21:34:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T13:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/which-aerospace-company-is-building-americas-next-generation-fighter-jet\/"},"modified":"2020-11-05T21:34:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T13:34:41","slug":"which-aerospace-company-is-building-americas-next-generation-fighter-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/which-aerospace-company-is-building-americas-next-generation-fighter-jet\/","title":{"rendered":"Which aerospace company is building America\u2019s next-generation fighter jet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image wp-block-image--obfuscated\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1600\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-attachment-id=\"5947\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2020\/11\/04\/which-aerospace-company-is-building-americas-next-generation-fighter-jet\/_q9a2048\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png\" data-orig-size=\"3500,1969\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"_Q9A2048\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\n\n<p>Image credit: Daryl Sausse<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1024&#8243;><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\tImage credit: Daryl Sausse\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A couple of months ago, the U.S. Air Force revealed that it had secretly designed a next-generation fighter jet. Not only that, but a prototype of the fighter had apparently also been secretly built and test flown.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-5946\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What\u2019s most impressive about the Air Force\u2019s new fighter jet claims is the development time. The Air Force stated that it went from the drawing board phase to flying a functional prototype in about a year, an astonishingly fast development time. For comparison, the F-22, which is a current U.S. fighter jet, took about three years to get to the same stage in its development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At this point in time, virtually nothing is known about this mysterious next-generation fighter jet. While discussing that it exists, Air Force officials refuse to answer questions pertaining to any aspect of the fighter. All we know is that it exists and that it has flown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One important thing we can attempt to discern about the next-generation fighter is which aerospace company has been contracted to manufacture it. The three major American defense aerospace companies are Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman. It is incredibly likely that one of these companies is behind it.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/plain\">\n\t\t\twindow.adSlotsConfig = window.adSlotsConfig || [];<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tadSlotsConfig.push( {\n\t\t\t\tslotID: '\/1049447\/Outbrain',\n\t\t\t\tslotName: 'div-gpt-ad-outbrain-ad-5946',\n\t\t\t\tsizes: [300, 250],\n\t\t\t\tslotPosition: 'mid_article'\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<figure data-carousel-extra=\"{&quot;blog_id&quot;:10,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2020\/11\/04\/which-aerospace-company-is-building-americas-next-generation-fighter-jet\/&quot;}\" class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\">\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"Open image in full-screen.\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"552\" data-attachment-id=\"5950\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2020\/11\/04\/which-aerospace-company-is-building-americas-next-generation-fighter-jet\/next-generation-fighter-jet-concept-art\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png\" data-orig-size=\"980,552\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Next-generation-fighter-jet-concept-art\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=980\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Next-generation-fighter-jet-concept-art.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5950\" data-link=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/?attachment_id=5950\" class=\"wp-image-5950\" 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data-full-url=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Next-generation-fighter-jet-concept-art3-1.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all\" data-link=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/?attachment_id=5955\" class=\"wp-image-5955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Next-generation-fighter-jet-concept-art3-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Next-generation-fighter-jet-concept-art3-1.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Next-generation-fighter-jet-concept-art3-1.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Next-generation-fighter-jet-concept-art3-1.jpg?resize=1024,576 1024w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Next-generation-fighter-jet-concept-art3-1.jpg?resize=350,197 350w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Next-generation-fighter-jet-concept-art3-1.jpg?resize=140,79 140w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Next-generation-fighter-jet-concept-art3-1.jpg?resize=150,84 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Air Force next-generation fighter jet concept art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have reason to believe that Lockheed Martin or Northrop Grumman is the likeliest of the three companies. During a recent call with investors, Lockheed Martin stated that the company had recently won a classified contract that required them to build an entirely new building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the other hand, Northrop Grumman has shown increased \u201crestricted activities\u201d in the company\u2019s aircraft portfolios. This has been correlated to a 4 percent year-to-date increase in sales from 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Boeing, it\u2019s been challenging to say what\u2019s going on behind closed doors lately. As we all know, the company has been dealing with substantial issues on the commercial side of things. Because of this, the company hasn\u2019t been speaking much about projects that fall under Boeing Defense. However, we thought it was still worth mentioning, with it being one of the big three aerospace defense companies in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite some key information being available, it is still rather difficult to say precisely which company might be developing America\u2019s next-generation fighter jet. That being said, we are currently leaning towards Lockheed Martin being the most likely of the three candidates. The new classified contract, along with an entirely new building needed to accommodate it, is just too coincidental to ignore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Via <em>Defense News<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}