Sixth-generation fighter

Sixth-generation jet fighter
Mock-up of a Next Generation Fighter and a remote carrier at the 2019 Paris Air Show
Role Fighter aircraft
Status In development
Developed from Fifth-generation fighter

A sixth-generation fighter is a conceptualized class of jet fighter aircraft design more advanced than the fifth-generation jet fighters that are currently in service and development. Several countries have announced the development of a national sixth-generation aircraft program, including the United States, Russia and China. Whilst other countries have joined collaborative multinational projects such as Japan, Italy and the United Kingdom with Global Combat Air Programme, and France, Germany and Spain with FCAS; in order to spread development and procurement costs.[1] The first sixth-generation fighters are expected to enter service in the 2030s.

  1. ^ "Japan, U.K. to Work Together on Sixth Generation Fighter Development". Popular Mechanics. 22 July 2022.