{"id":151153,"date":"2024-11-23T21:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/optionally-crewed-fighter-jets-future-aerial-warfare\/"},"modified":"2024-11-23T21:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T11:00:15","slug":"why-optionally-crewed-fighter-jets-could-be-the-future-of-aerial-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=151153","title":{"rendered":"Why Optionally Crewed Fighter Jets Could Be The Future Of Aerial Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2033564\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-navy-commits-6th-gen-fighter-usaf-delays-ngad\/\" >United States Air Force appears to be unsure about the wisdom of a manned sixth-generation fighter<\/a><\/span>, it seems to be powering ahead with the Collaborative Combat Aircraft component of the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program. These are loyal wingman drones designed to add mass and be dramatic enablers for the manned             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"712748\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>sixth-generation fighter<\/span><\/span> platform. However, the distinction between a manned sixth-generation fighter and unmanned loyal wingman drones is not a clean one. It appears both of these systems could be optionally manned to some degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are now multiple examples of &#8220;manned&#8221; and &#8220;unmanned&#8221; Air Force aircraft actually being optionally crewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12160,396,4160,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6th-generation-fighter-jet","category-aircraft","category-drones","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151154,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151153\/revisions\/151154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}