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F-47 is almost certainly the same aircraft Boeing proposed last summer. At most, the contractor changed from LM to Boing!, but the NGAD design and requirements never changed. A low cost NGAD was I believe idle speculation from a quote by Kendal and was not an official decision made.Quellish indicated that he was aware of two LM X planes for NGAD and two more for FAXX from Boeing. It seems more likely that the Boeing submission was always a smaller aircraft, perhaps based on carrier MTOWs, and that people who thought the range requirement would drive the program to an F-111 sized platform were simply wrong, myself included.ETA: the LM submission might also have been of a similar size. But if Boeing was working on FAXX demonstrators, that might explain the decision to use canards, as a previous post noted. I think it likely Boeing wins both contracts as well and that there is some commonality among the two platforms, though I would presume FAXX trades fuel for payload and we know it will not use a three stream power plant.
F-47 is almost certainly the same aircraft Boeing proposed last summer. At most, the contractor changed from LM to Boing!, but the NGAD design and requirements never changed. A low cost NGAD was I believe idle speculation from a quote by Kendal and was not an official decision made.
Quellish indicated that he was aware of two LM X planes for NGAD and two more for FAXX from Boeing. It seems more likely that the Boeing submission was always a smaller aircraft, perhaps based on carrier MTOWs, and that people who thought the range requirement would drive the program to an F-111 sized platform were simply wrong, myself included.
ETA: the LM submission might also have been of a similar size. But if Boeing was working on FAXX demonstrators, that might explain the decision to use canards, as a previous post noted. I think it likely Boeing wins both contracts as well and that there is some commonality among the two platforms, though I would presume FAXX trades fuel for payload and we know it will not use a three stream power plant.
