American defense giant Lockheed Martin, which lost the closely-contested Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) contract to Boeing, could now upgrade its existing fifth-generation fighter—the F-35 Lightning II—with sixth-generation technology it developed for NGAD. Lockheed Martin received a rude shock on March 21 when US President Donald Trump announced that the sixth-generation crewed air-superiority fighter jet, dubbed the […]
