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An unknown stealth aircraft was spotted at Lockheed Martin in the Mojave Desert, the plane appeared in a video on TikTok.
It may be a sixth-generation fighter jet, a demonstrator of which the US Air Force secretly tested last year.
The US Air Force has been working on the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program for several years.
It involves the development of a family of systems, the key element of which will be a jet fighter.
Other platforms are likely to be unmanned aerial vehicles carrying additional weapons and other missions.
Last year, the US Air Force secretly tested a sixth-generation fighter demonstrator as part of the NGAD. It was developed and assembled by an unspecified company.
The demonstrator was completely digitally designed, and its model was also tested partly in simulators. Technical details about him were not disclosed.
A video of the transport of an unobtrusive aircraft mounted on a cargo platform appeared on TikTok, and then on other social networks and media.
According to open sources, this took place at the Lockheed Martin facility in the Mojave Desert, near its Skunk Works research unit.
The latter is known for its developments in the field of stealth aircraft.
The unknown aircraft has many similarities with a variety of new generation fighter concepts, including the NGAD. It has a tailless design with an elongated fuselage.
The size of the aircraft is difficult to determine as it may be a scaled-down model.
Nevertheless, companies are currently developing programs other than the US Air Force NGAD.
For example, according to the project of the same name, the American naval forces.
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