The X-44 Manta: US Air Force Secretly Tested Sixth Generation Stealth Fighter.

The X-44 Manta: US Air Force Secretly Tested Sixth Generation Stealth Fighter.
In the shadowed corridors of the Pentagon, a secret project took flight in 1999, a delta-shaped enigma that promised to redefine aerial combat. This was no ordinary fighter; this was the X-44 Manta, Lockheed Martin's bold vision of the future. With a design that forwent the conventional tail, the Manta was a rebel, a maverick that challenged the status quo with its thrust vector control, a system that directed the engine's raw power to grant the aircraft unparalleled agility in the skies.
Fast forward to today, over two decades later, and whispers of the Manta echo through the halls of the Air Force's most ambitious program yet: the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD). Could it be that the ghost of the Manta has returned, influencing America's next air superiority champion? The Air Force's surprise announcement last year sent shockwaves around the globe: a prototype from the NGAD program, not just designed or built, but flown. This new jet, shrouded in secrecy, is said to be the apex predator of the skies, engineered to outclass and outlast the advanced fifth-generation fighters of adversaries.

[@Grey_Hybrid]

That’s a really nice looking ARV 🛸

[@aviationdesigns_mg7883]

Thanks for using my rendering of NGAD

[@SkywardFighterTech]

Thanks for cooperating🙏

[@rvs55]

Funding for the X-44 ended in 2000.

[@demunbell]

Publicly. US debt is in the multi-trillions. There is funding available still👍🏿🇺🇸

[@militarygeneration7]

MILITARY GENERATION WHICH COUNTRY WILL DO YOU ACCEPT?

[@ValentinoX]

2/3 of FY35 could not fly When X44 went into production, how many of them could fly? US$34trillion debt, how many can be built?

[@vladpootin5973]

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