HMM: Air Force Shocks Defense Sector As Secret Fighter Jet Takes Flight. “The NGAD has come so far that the full-scale flight demonstrator has already flown in the physical world. It’s broken a lot of records.”
It’s an educated guess that whatever they end up naming the sixth-gen fighter — I like the sound of F-51 in honor of the WWII P-51 Mustang — it will be able to fly and fight either manned or unmanned.