{"id":439879,"date":"2026-05-28T02:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/6th-generation-fighter-programs-ranked\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T02:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:00:19","slug":"the-worlds-6th-generation-fighter-programs-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=439879","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s 6th-Generation Fighter Programs Ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s leading nations are currently racing to develop 6th-generation <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58724\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\"  >fighter jets<\/a><\/span>. However, it is important to note a few things; one is that, to some extent, the category doesn&#8217;t exist in a neatly defined sense. There is <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2045821\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/country-most-superior-6th-generation-fighter-jet-program\/\" >no universally recognized criterion for what constitutes a 6th-generation fighter jet<\/a><\/span>, and the term is often used for marketing, propaganda, and clickbait value. That said, the consensus revolves around 6th-gen fighter jets resembling all-aspect stealth flying supercomputer command centers that happen to carry missiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US, China and the UK\/Japan\/Italy coalition are leading the race to field 6th-gen fighter jets with some programs experiencing deep problems.<\/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":[12160,396,628,412,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6th-generation-fighter-jet","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439879","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=439879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439880,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439879\/revisions\/439880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}