In mid-September, the director of acquisitions of the US Air Force and strong man of the programs of the first world air force, astonished his audience by announcing that the US Air Force had built, in one year, a demonstrator attached to the new heavy fighter program intended to replace the F15 and the F22 within ten years, the Next-Generation Air Dominance Program. On the other hand, the "Czar" of the US Air Force programs did not give any information concerning the industrialist (s) who carried out this work, the objective then being to put forward the new design paradigm resulting from the model of Digital Century Series.
Rumors had spread across the Atlantic for many years, and all the major manufacturers, from Northrop-Grumman to Boeing, were at one point approached as Will Roper's privileged industrial partner. The suspense could end now, with statements clearly lacking in subtlety from Lockheed-Martin CFO Ken Possenriede who, on the occasion of a presentation of the company's revenue developments, said that the special projects division of the company, the “Skunk Works” division which notably developed legendary aircraft such as the U2, SR-71 and F117A, would experience double-digit growth in the coming months, this being linked to the execution of a confidential program.
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