USAF plans ‘Sixth-Gen fighter’

In characteristic manner, the USAF are planning a sixth-generation fighter with the nomenclature Penetrating Counter-Air (PCA). A supplemental budget requests increase in the Fiscal Year 2017 plan by $30bn for immediate PCA funding from $21m to $168m for research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E). The PCA is designed to supplement and eventually replace the F-22 Raptors in USAF service from after 2030.