Personnel tasked with officiating the ground- and flight-testing campaigns salient to the DOD’s acceptance of the United States Air Force’s newest and most technologically-advanced, combat-capable stealth-bomber—Northrop-Grumman’s B-21 raider—have commenced engine runs at Northrop-Grumman’s Palmdale, California facility. So states the USAF. Engine testing is an essential milestone in the maturation of any aircraft platform—military or civilian—and heralds the imminent entry into service of the world’s first sixth-generation tactical aircraft.
Joint Anglo-Japanese-Italian Effort to Field Aircraft by 2035
Defense industry leaders hailing from the U.K., Japan, and Italy have entered into a trilateral collaboration agreement for purpose of delivering the concept phase requirements of a next-generation combat aircraft under the auspices of the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP)—a multinational initiative to develop a sixth-generation stealth fighter by 2035.
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