Inside the Air Force (subscribers only) reports today from the Air Armament Summit in Florida:
Air Combat Command Director of Requirements Maj. Gen. Mark Matthews said sixth-generation planes are on the service's radar.
"What our folks have already begun with are informal discussions [with] think tanks, with people in industry, about what their thoughts and their concepts are for the next generation of air dominance," he said. "What I've asked my people to go back and look at . . . is to look at other concepts for executing air dominance, not just fixed-wing aircraft."
Air dominance, the two-star said, could include cyber effects, directed energy or ground-based systems.
on October 12, 2008 10:46 AM | Reply
Then Gen. Mark Matthew's alarm clock woke him up out of his dream and back into a reality of the pauper USAF with several monstrous aircraft recapitalization problems facing it.