Lockheed Martin did not win the fighter in the next generation in America, but its CEO still wants to build a plane in the same league.
In calling the company’s profits in the first quarter on Tuesday, James Taycllett said he set a new goal for his employees: to raise the F-35 level so that he can match 80 % of the F-47 capabilities of half the cost.
“The challenge it faces in my flight team is, let’s get 80 % of the sixth generation capacity in half the price,” said Ticellette.
“This is something – and these are engineers, they did not agree on that if they do not think that there is a way to get there – and this is something that we will get out and do.”
Taiclet called this “fifth generation plus”. He said that Lockheed’s plan to get there will benefit from her experience From the years of work To win the bid for The fighter is the next generation.
The company eventually lost the ghost fighter of the sixth generation to Boeing, which President Donald Trump announced in late March as the chosen manufacturer. This decision shook Lockheed’s reputation in Stealth Fighter, which was controlled with Nighthawk, F-22 RAPTOR and F-35 Lightning II.
In the profit call on Tuesday, Tailett said Lockheed wanted to move from the prize loss.
“We will not protest the NGAD decision from the United States government,” he said, referring to the dominance of the next generation, the American program to create the successor from the sixth generation to F-22. “We progress and move to the application of all the technologies that we have developed in our NGAD display on our compact base of F-35 and F-22.”
“It is a little kind of – not comfortable – but it is a novel for our industry to think this way.” “But we think this way.”
He compared his ambition to strengthen the road car to the point that it becomes a race car.
“So, the F-35. So we will take the structure in the first place and turn it into Ferrari. It is like a NASCAR upgrade, if it is permissible to speak,” he said.
Tiklet said that Lockheed worked to develop better sensors and technologies in an attempt of the sixth generation, and it can apply these technologies to improve the F-35. It was also mentioned by the system of tracking the latest and long -term weapons.
He told analysts that the idea is to avoid Advanced Aircraft Advances battles if they can. “We want to shoot the other man, as I said, before he knows that we are there,” he said.
Boeing’s F-47 is supposed to be more fighter to give up the ghost in America so far, with plans for aircraft to fly along with drones from the semi-wound “wings”. With air superiority as his priority, one of the main roles of the next generation fighters is to destroy enemy aircraft.
Meanwhile, F-35, a multi-role fighter, entered service in 2015, is the export of Lockheed. Tiklet said that the company expects to provide between 170 and 190 F-35s in 2025, with about 360 other aircraft accumulated.
Lockheed has reached a net profit of $ 1.7 billion for the first quarter ending on March 30, an increase of $ 1.5 billion in the first quarter of 2024. profits of $ 7.28 per share won the US -Steret expectations of $ 6.34 per share.
The company’s share price increased by 0.82 % to 462.08 dollars in the closing market on Tuesday.
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