{"id":113030,"date":"2020-09-15T13:25:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-air-force-has-already-built-and-flown-a-prototype-of-its-first-new-fighter-jet-in-two-decades"},"modified":"2020-09-15T13:25:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:25:59","slug":"the-air-force-has-already-built-and-flown-a-prototype-of-its-first-new-fighter-jet-in-two-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-air-force-has-already-built-and-flown-a-prototype-of-its-first-new-fighter-jet-in-two-decades","title":{"rendered":"The Air Force has already built and flown a prototype of its first new fighter jet in two decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-air-force-has-already-built-and-flown-a-prototype-of-its-first-new-fighter-jet-in-two-decades2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow cool.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Defense Department may not have finished working out all the kinks in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/21\/magazine\/f35-joint-strike-fighter-program.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ultra-expensive<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/military-tech\/f35-joint-strike-fighter-deficiencies-2020\">perpetually buggy<\/a> F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, but the Air Force is plowing ahead with plans for a next-generation fighter jet.<\/p>\n<p>Defense News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/breaking-news\/2020\/09\/15\/the-us-air-force-has-built-and-flown-a-mysterious-full-scale-prototype-of-its-future-fighter-jet\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that the service has secretly designed, built, and flown a prototype of a future fighter jet under its Next Generation Air Dominance program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve already built and flown a full-scale flight demonstrator in the real world, and we broke records in doing it,\u201d Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/breaking-news\/2020\/09\/15\/the-us-air-force-has-built-and-flown-a-mysterious-full-scale-prototype-of-its-future-fighter-jet\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> Defense News during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/air-force-association\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Air Force Association\u2019s Air, Space, and Cyber Conference<\/a>. \u201cWe are ready to go and build the next-generation aircraft in a way that has never happened before.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow cool. The Defense Department may not have finished working out all the kinks in the ultra-expensive and perpetually buggy F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, but the Air Force is plowing ahead with plans for a next-generation fighter jet. Defense News reports that the service has secretly designed, built, and flown a prototype of a future [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}