17 days ago · Washington, United States
US says F-47 will be first sixth-gen jet. China’s J-36 and J-50 are already flying
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a politics story. South China Morning Post Asia and Axios are the outlets attached to this story. The reports are tied to Washington, United States. The first report grouped here was at 29 Sept 2026, 21:42 UTC. 2 material updates are listed in the timeline. The headline in use is “US says F-47 will be first sixth-gen jet. China’s J-36 and J-50 are already flying”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
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Washington is “not too far away” from a production line for its F-47 sixth-generation fighter, a senior US Air Force official has said, as China presses ahead with flight-testing two different next-generation combat aircraft of its own. During a virtual event hosted by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies on…
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- First reported by Axios
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US says F-47 will be first sixth-gen jet. China’s J-36 and J-50 are already flying
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