B-21 Killing the NGAD?
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On the lighter side of the news, the Air Force is giving some thought to giving up on its sixth-generation fighter:
But there is danger in overburdening the B-21. Thus far the Air Force has done an excellent job of holding the line on mission and capability creep for the Raider, which has helped to keep the costs of the program manageable. It takes extraordinary organizational discipline to avoid project bloat, and emphasizing new capabilities and a new mission for the B-21 at this point in the aircraft’s evolution could create a need for design changes or for the integration of new, immature technologies. If an effort to kill the NGAD results in poisoning the B-21 project, nobody wins.
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