Pentagon 6th-Gen Stealth Fighter Likely to Fire Fire Lasers & Hypersonic Weapons

By Kris Osborn, President, Center for Military Modernization

A stealthy, supersonic, semi-autonomous 6th-gen fighter is likely being designed to maneuver undetected through heavily armed enemy air space, evade radar detection, jam an enemies’ command and control systems with EW weapons, gather, analyze and transmit targeting data across huge areas of terrain in milliseconds and achieve and sustain air superiority to launch attacks as needed.

The jet will more than likely operate with AI-empowered computing, launch and operate groups of nearby minidrones, fire air-launched hypersonic missiles and then… incinerate enemy aircraft with fighter-jet fired precision laser weapons … all while flying too quickly and too stealthily to be targeted.

Therefore, an intriguing, mysterious and reportedly extremely promising cloud of possibility surrounds the largely “black” and “unknown” 6th-generation aircraft, an already airborne stealth platform which could change the paradigm in the realm of speed, AI, sensing, weapons and overall air supremacy.

Demonstrator aircraft of the NGAD have been airborne for more than a year now. When this first happened, the development captured the national imagination, as the public was previously unaware that an aircraft had actually taken to the sky.