US EditionThe F/A-XX U.S. Navy Stealth Fighter Is Back from the Dead (For the Second Time)
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The F/A-XX U.S. Navy Stealth Fighter Is Back from the Dead (For the Second Time)
Congress is reviving the Navy’s F/A-XX carrier fighter by adding $897 million above the Pentagon’s fiscal 2026 request, signaling impatience with a strategy that effectively paused the program to protect the Air Force’s F-47 timeline and an overstretched industrial base. The new funding aims to push the Navy toward an engineering-and-manufacturing development award, accelerate initial operational capability, and force clearer acquisition plannin…
The U.S. Congress decided to add $897.26 million to defence credits 2026 to re-launch the F/A‐XX, the future 6th generation US Navy fighter, after the Pentagon had reduced effort 2026 to $74 million.
For fiscal year 2026, $900 million was finally allocated to continue the next-generation carrier-based combat aircraft program [F/A-XX](https://defence24.pl/technologie/fa-xx-nowym-rozgrywajacym-us-navy-komentarz). This is good news, considering that the program received just under $500 million last fiscal year. However, this relatively small expenditure assumed an acceleration of work in 2026, with $1.4 billion spent on the program.
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