Portraying. This is exactly the reproach I have to this way of managing a mil program and your way of characterizing my opinion.
Where are the services RFI, RFPs?
Where is the competition that nurture new aggressive way to search for innovations, performance and ensure efficiency?
Where is the epicenter of decision now?

I will tell you, At the age of the much vaunted IA, there is not much more in program management here than what leads the misoginist view on Women: blondes are idiots and red hair whores (replace in context with your own choice of national industry)…

Great debates inbound. Colorful pictorial future for our program elites, let the circus and the money burning start over (again)!

Obviously, let’s compete for the Fun of it… M’enfin!

Meanwhile, in another “good European” country not far far away…

Under a deal struck with the Italian government, the remaining 29 Dutch [F-35] will all be assembled at Cameri, which is owned by the Italian government and operated by Italian state-controled defense firm Leonardo in partnership with Lockheed Martin.

Source:
DefenseNews.com

Cheaper that way (manned airframe) 😉

I wonder how an aerospace magazine can publish such report containing NOT a single consistency. You’ll appreciate also the placarding of Experts as an attempt to raise the level.

This UAV (if real and anything close to something intended to fly) is a mockup that depict an intensive re-use of design choices fielded with the J-20 (logic). From the aft strapped delta wing with large forward positioned canards, the profile of the DSI (but below the aircraft), massive V-tails, everything seems to have been re-used. Hence it would have sounded more professional to appreciate this thing as having similar perfs and mission profiles.

Not a 6th Gen aircraft.

If you have to go derelict why not get some upgraded mig21 with Slovakian/Indian support?

It would be out of topic to discuss this here. Sorry Sintra.

I don’t see trade discussions on minor aspect of the massive flows of products correlated with defense purchase.

Yes, the fuselage (out if it seer beauty) puts into practice NASA’s Natural laminar flows principles to the letter… But shaped around the need of a roomy business jet 😉