Lockheed is pivoting to upgrading F-22s and F-35s with sixth-generation fighter technology after losing the F-47 contract to Boeing.
Credit: Master Sgt. Shane A. Cuomo/U.S. Air Force
Lockheed Martin coined the term “fifth-generation fighter” in 2004 to draw the market’s attention to how the F-22 and F-35 defined a class of aircraft that packaged supersonic speed with a stealthy airframe and a data fusion-equipped cockpit. Not all the defining features of a sixth-generation...
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