The US says the F-47 will be the first sixth-generation aircraft. Chinese J-36 and J-50 aircraft are already flying G trends

Washington is “not too far away” from the production line of its sixth-generation F-47 fighter, a senior US Air Force official said, as China presses ahead with flight testing of two different next-generation fighter jets of its own. During a virtual event hosted by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies on Monday, Brigadier General Timothy Helfrich, executive director of the service’s advanced fighter and aircraft acquisitions, said the F-47 would be “the world’s first…