Now that 6th gen fighters will be in service in a decade, what will the defining capabilities
of 7th gen fighters be?
I’m thinking
>Fusion powerplants + fusion engines
>Single stage to orbit capability
>Molecular nanotechnology
>Hypersonic speeds
No pilots
WHY CANT YOU JUST BE HAPPY EITH WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE YOU UNGRATEFUL FRICKS? MORE MORE MORE THATS ALL YOU b***h ABOUT. CONSOOM, GET EXCITED FOR NEW PRODUCT, THEN CONSOOM MORE. FRICK
>.t Chang, Anoosh, and Pidormir upset at barely being able to keep with with 6th gen hype
Calm down Pierre Sprey
>no pilots
How 'bout this (filmworthy) idea?
>get stem & brain cells from veteran pilots
>tweak the cells epigentically
>grow specially modified brains from cells
>brains engineered to be nearly g-force proof
>brains have all of the memories of the pilots
>brains kept alive through cybernetics
>brain cyber capsules
>brain capsules installed in 7th+ gen aerospacecraft
>living cyborg fighter jets
...maybe computers are the logistically superior solution.
>brains engineered to be nearly g-force proof
We are many decades away from engineering biological structures in that way.
We can engineer a bacteria to tweak its resistance to antibiotics but multicelled structures are way, way beyond us.
Basically everything else about your post shows you know nothing of either neuroscience or cellular biology either.
>Optionally manned, maybe. I think "fighters" will shift towards more of a command & control role with the actual weapons and sensors on unmanned aircraft.
This.
The unmanned aircraft are essentially missiles that fire missiles, allowing for a kind of BVR^2 approach.
Unless unjammable communications are invented (without new forms of jamming) then true autonomous craft probably aren't reliable and keeping a pilot in the loop at least when required is likely to be necessary.
Do you want Terminator Red October with stealth bombers?
Because that’s how you get Terminator Red October with stealth bombers.
Isn't that how you get Cylons?
We are seeing this already with crew optional tanks as robotic warfare continues to grow and develop. It's just not the same as having a real pilot, but it has less weight, no G-force injuries. Don't have this problem with robotic jets, and the two can be used in combination.
One thing for certain is that they'll be absolutely unmanned. Probably will even use some form of exotic propulsion reverse-engineered from one of the 12 recovered alien spacecrafts we have.
>they'll be absolutely unmanned
Optionally manned, maybe. I think "fighters" will shift towards more of a command & control role with the actual weapons and sensors on unmanned aircraft. This would let you keep the squishy parts of the system as hidden and safe as possible while minimizing latency to the unmanned components.
SSTO capability
This thread is the equivalent of asking what will define 6th gen aircraft back in 1995.
No point even discussing it really.
Hell, we still don't know for sure what the defining characteristics of 6th gen aircraft will be. Still, lighten up a little anon, have some fun every once in a while.
Warplanners are already formulating what 7th gen capabilities will be.
>what will the defining capabilities of 7th gen fighters be?
Already have. You may not like it, but the US is 6 million years ahead in military tech. The US military government holds the keys to the meaning of life & death, has both friendly & evil alien helpers (ET/FNORD), psychic "remote viewing" spie's, time travel tech, fleets of reverse-engineered antigravity alien tech "TR-3B Black Triangle" flying ship's powered by element 115, communication with ghosts the afterlife & the unborn, triple-barreled M551A666 PsychoSheridan tank's, 75th Rangers exoskeleton-hip-fired gyro-stabilised 120mm infantry mortar's with pinpoint accuracy during 25mph sprint, access to other "parallel" universe's, NSA/DARPA GGGQEP quantum ∞(±6^∀)Petahertz miconpossessors to eavesdrop on every single electronic & non-electronic communication in the world even sign language underneath 1km of EMF Kevlar, "Rods from God" (just 1 orbital tungsten telephone pole = two Czar Bombas), the 300,000-strong "Fighting Molemen" U.S. SUBTERRANEAN FORCE, FT LEE VA (the secret "7th branch" existing since 1899), quantum IFVs, "phase-shifting" Armored Recovery Vehicles, new "Stealth" tech that makes jet's invisible to Radar. Shoulder-fired ASAT missiles. Stealth field kitchens. This is publicized in Stargate SG1, scientific research publication Popular Science, only a fraction of the more spooky & shadowy stuff not listed above is merely hinted at in Marvel Cinematic Universe™, history documentary Red Alert 2, French time travel documentary Life is Strange (David Madsen was a rogue DIA test subject), but the pardoned parcel is the US of A is at least 6 million years ahead in military tech even without the help of alien's. It is 6 million years ahead though the exact number fluctuates due to the activities of the US Military Time Travel Program underneath Barksdale AFB, L.A., this 6 million years ahead is a universally agreed-upon average by the world & intergalactic/ET scientific communities.
actual schizoid. Incredible
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>chomp
I WANNA FRICK THAT LT!!!
>chomp?
>Doesn't recognize the copypasta
Based Schizoid.
Holy shit you must be fun at parties after a few drinks.
>arouser
wtf
Her name is actually "Arduser". The "D" just looks like an "O" because of the way the name tape is oriented.
>she can walk again
actually a little heartwarming
She can now feel more than a vague sensation of indignation when someone takes her to pound town.
calm down Satan. she got in a car crash, broke her neck, and was a quadriplegic but managed to work her way back to being able to walk
This is true, I'm a NORD alien. This is me. Ignore the watermark.
>the 300,000-strong "Fighting Molemen" U.S. SUBTERRANEAN FORCE, FT LEE VA (the secret "7th branch" existing since 1899)
this part gets me every time kek
Implessive!
oh wait
Nuclear scramjet engines. Either fusion or fission. Absurd range and speed as a result.
Flying tic tacs dropping gay bombs.
All of the things you mentioned sound more like 9th gen
Fusion propulsion is really the only meaningful revolutionary improvement that can be had if 6th gen delivers as promised. The jets will be fricking enormous, though. Everything else would be a incremental improvement over 6th gen.
>The jets will be fricking enormous, though
No
https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/lockheed-martin-has-a-patent-for-fusion-powered-fighters-and-bombers/
>According to the Skunk Works, a single reactor using their confinement system could run continuously for a year on just 25 pounds of fuel while producing roughly 100 megawatts of power — enough to power the homes of 100,000 people. Potential applications for such a device are staggering, and the Skunk Works patent includes somewhat obvious uses like powering an aircraft carrier as well as more novel ones, like using containerized fusion trucks to provide emergency energy to cities following natural disasters.
>But perhaps the most intriguing inclusion in the patent is a reactor made small enough to be housed within the fuselage of an F-16 Fighting Falcon.
I'm going to build one of these to power my frick machine. Wish me luck anons.
thats fricking bullshit I will believe it when I see it
I was thinking that future exported fighter jets would be cheaper and as easy to fly as they are in video games. Imagine how much money these companies could make if they could literally have a child fly in a cheap ass jet and it's controlled with a gamepad or a joystick and some pedals. Basically no more complicated than a car to operate. The US could funnel these planes to ex-soviet bloc countries like Ukraine or countries in SEA to easily curb the expansion of Russia and China. They can even send them to Africa and give them rebel groups to make it harder for Wagner and Chinese industry.
No need for costly training, just a few hours in a simulator so they don't crash in their first sortie. Something like this would likely need very advanced avionics and control systems which if they're mass produced, are very likely to fall into enemy hands
>what will the defining capabilities
They will cost 10 billion each and there will 30 of them built in total. Of course they will be made by LM. Combat-wise, they will be equivalent to F-16.
Sound Barrier breaking drones.
>block chain powered
>cloud-centric
>generative AI
>IoT
Rotating detonation engines and active flow control.
Penis suction compartment
7th gen aircraft will all be based on a new blimp technology
Gen 7 is barely a twinkle in the eye of undergrads working for a PHD.
By the time the government finalizes proposals they'll be capable of designing mixed mode, variable cycle, variable bypass, variable compression ratio Turbine/RAM/SCRAM that can operate from the subsonic to M7+ and be able to do suborbital atmosphere skipping.
For a start
fusion powered everything
given 5th gen is going to be in service until 2080's, and 6th gen probably well into 2150's... Those don't sound like entirely unreasonable expectations for 7th gen.
> Optical stealth
> Directed energy primary weapon
> 45G maneuver capability
> VTOL/SSTO/water launch capable
> Full AI option (human out of loop)
> Quantum comms w/ laser backup
> Radar signature spoofing capable
> 30,000 nmi range
> Single-crystal graphene frame
> Non-linear feedforward control system
> 360 degree 1kHz through X-Ray EM detection
> Automatic trash talk injection on enemy radio
> Featureless wienerpit (neural control if piloted)
> Internal 20mm cannon with 5 rounds (for Pierre)
The future is lookin' bright
8th Gen will just be a guy inside a warp bubble like in The Fountain