SOURCE: Xinhua

An international participant in Australia’s Exercise Pitch Black 24 has managed to survive after ejecting from an aircraft on Wednesday morning during flying operations in a remote region of Northern Territory (NT).

A spokesperson from Australia’s Department of Defence told Xinhua that the military personnel responded at 10:45 a.m. local time to an aircraft emergency in the exercise area and coordinated the recovery of the pilot with a search and rescue helicopter.

SOURCE: ANI

The USA has thrown doubts over what its future program for a sixth-generation fighter might look like, with US Air Force officials recently questioning the expense of the Next Generation Air Dominance fighter as originally envisioned. On the contrary, China is believed to be proceeding at pace with its own equivalent fighter development.

Of course, it is difficult to ascertain definitive information on China’s future sixth-generation fighter, since Beijing is extremely secretive about its top military programs. However, there is sufficient evidence that the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) will eventually field a modern fighter to succeed the current fifth-generation J-20 fighter. Firstly, what is a sixth-generation fighter? Nobody has yet developed one, but there are various efforts around the world to create them.