{"id":94640,"date":"2019-08-11T02:22:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T09:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/sixth-generation-fighters-and-the-future-of-air-supremacy"},"modified":"2019-08-11T02:22:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T09:22:29","slug":"sixth-generation-fighters-and-the-future-of-air-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/sixth-generation-fighters-and-the-future-of-air-supremacy","title":{"rendered":"Sixth-generation fighters and the future of air supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sixth-generation-fighters-and-the-future-of-air-supremacy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Such fifth-generation fighters are only now coming into service and others are being developed in Russia, China, and Japan, but they are already obsolete. Even while the F-35 was still in the testing phase, the US Pentagon was looking at a replacement, and countries like France and Germany gave up their own efforts at building a fifth-generation fighter in favor of skipping straight to making a sixth.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The world of aerospace is full of buzzwords and phrases and one that\u2019s been getting a lot of attention in military aircraft circles is \u201csixth-generation fighters.\u201d Rather than an <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/f-35-comprehensive-test-completed\/54212\/\" target=\"_blank\">F-35<\/a> or a Typhoon with new trim and chrome hubcaps, these emerging combat aircraft are set to represent a real sea change in tactics and, perhaps, strategy in the middle of the 21st century. But what exactly is the sixth gen? Let\u2019s take a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such fifth-generation fighters are only now coming into service and others are being developed in Russia, China, and Japan, but they are already obsolete. Even while the F-35 was still in the testing phase, the US Pentagon was looking at a replacement, and countries like France and Germany gave up their own efforts at building [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94640","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}