In addition to China, Russia also has a new stealth fighter, the Sukhoi Su-57, known as the Felon by most NATO countries. As a result, the world is quickly catching up to America’s stealth dominance. Their ability to perform these functions over enemy airspace with relative impunity makes them vital to any modern air force. Stealth fighters can attack ground forces, perform reconnaissance missions, carry out secretive intelligence operations, and even jam enemy radars. Stealth planes’ engines are designed to make less noise and produce a smaller heat signature, and their onboard radar and communication tools emit electromagnetic frequencies that are harder to detect than most. jets, can absorb as much as 80 percent of radar waves. They’re also coated in highly classified materials which, on U.S. Stealth fighters like the F-22 are shaped to deflect opposing radar waves. But aircraft manufacturers achieve stealth-a craft’s capability of flying undetected by the enemy-with several overlapping technologies. The F-22 is already nearly undetectable on enemy radars in most conditions. It’s hard to say how stealthy the new NGAD jets will be. Analysts believe the new jet, known as the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, will have powerful new engines, fly with drone wingmen, and have advanced sensors and radars that use machine-learning and AI to target enemy aircraft. had begun studying an “air dominance initiative.” Today, a bit more is known about the program. In 2013, Arati Prabhakar, who at the time was the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, said that the U.S. has been secretly developing its next generation of stealth fighters over the past nine years. And as each day passes, America’s F-22 fleet inches closer to retirement while China’s J-20 fleet continues to grow.

Today, fewer than 120 are fit for combat. But F-22 production was halted in 2011 after just 186 jets. The Mighty Dragon looked similar to the best fighter in the sky today, America’s F-22 Raptor. It was the world’s first operational stealth aircraft to be designed outside the United States, and its introduction brought America’s three-decade monopoly on stealth aviation to an immediate end. I n March 2017, the crowning achievement of the Chinese aircraft manufacturer Chengdu, the J-20 Mighty Dragon, entered service for the People’s Liberation Army’s Air Force.

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