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  1.  @adamc6371  The YF-17 wasn't designed for carriers, but the F/A-18 absolutely was. That's why the F/A-18 ended up being a good deal bigger than the YF-17.
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  2.  @AnonymousVenator  No, it's called Trump beign a moron.
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  3. The F-22 has been able to do all of those things for over 20 years.
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  4. The "no tails" thing comes purely from a Boeing concept drawing for the F/A-XX program over a decade ago. Which has led to everybody seeming to assume that a "6th gen" jet must use that configuration. That would be like assuming that only jets that copy the basic configuration of the F-22 can be 5th gen...which would exclude the Chengdu J-20 despite it probably being closer in overall performance to the F-22 than any of the other 5th gen fighters.
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  5. The widely-used fighter "generations" are solely for the jet era.
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  6. Honestly, given what features were originally suppose to define "5th generation fighters", a good case could be made that the F-22 Raptor is still the only one (and possibly the J-20). After all, supercruise was originally hyped as being a core feature, until the JSF program deemed it superfluous and produced the F-35 that can't supercruise. At which point, since it was Lockheed Martin that coined term in the first place, they unilaterally changed the definition so the F-35 also counts. And "6th generation" is even less meaningful than "5th generation", because it literally just means "the designers claim it surpasses the F-22".
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  7. F-70
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  8. You can thank Donald Rumsfeld for the death of the Tomcat. If not for him it could easily still be going strong the same way the F-15 is.
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  9. Trump is a moron. He doesn't have the slightest clue what's involved in aircraft development. A twin-engine F-35 would be a completely new plane. There's no way you could use the existing production line.
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  10. NGAD and its Navy counterpart F/A-XX are also why it's so widely assumed that "no tail = 6th gen". Boeing put out a concept drawing in 2013 of a tailless stealthy-looking fighter that might be along the lines of what they're going to enter into those competitions. And since that was the first visual to exist that's in any way connected to "6th gen", people are just automatically calling these Chinese prototypes "6th gen" because they have no tails. Despite us knowing absolutely nothing about either the capabilities or the intended roles of the new Chinese jets. We don't even know if they're proper fighters at all; they might even just be tech demonstrators like Japan's Mitsubishi X-2 or the Boeing X-45 drone.
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  11. Nah, Northrop Grumman is going to secure the F/A-XX contract by pledging to call it the F-45 Trumpcat.
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