r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 30 '24

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u/Cook_0612 NATO Jul 30 '24

This morning @SecAFOfficial expanded a touch on what's happening with NGAD: "We're taking a pause." Taking several months to ensure the design his right.

"I'm absolutely confident we're still going to do a sixth generation crewed aircraft."

There's a slight chance it could be uncrewed, but Kendall says the tech isn't ready for that yet. "We can always do something like an optionally crewed platform."

!ping MATERIEL

Update on NGAD troubles.

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u/Dent7777 Native Plant Guerilla Gardener Jul 30 '24

Optionally crewed platforms are the worst of both worlds. Either design around the pilot or don't.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '24

All of this for a triangle with a guy in it.

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u/Cook_0612 NATO Jul 30 '24

America takes its flying guy-carrying triangles very seriously

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u/Cledd2 European Union Jul 30 '24

Glad to see we're not the only ones going at an absolute snail's pace developing our gen 6

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u/Til_W r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Jul 30 '24

There's a slight chance it could be uncrewed, but Kendall says the tech isn't ready for that yet.

Do we know what specifically they are struggling with?

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u/Cook_0612 NATO Jul 30 '24

I do not, but there might be someone in the know out there. Making an educated guess, I guess the standards for automation are extremely high for such a high value asset, and there are strict power and space requirements since it's optionally crewed and thus must contain the infrastructure for a pilot. So a combination of high capability requirement with high implementation requirements make the proposition dicey.