Whats your source?
Again. whats your source?
What do you mean by that? It's meant to operate deep inside enemy territory, where all these alternative assets are not available.
It's not gonna have AWACS support, tanker support, or other fighters when it's over Beijing or Moscow. Only itself and its accompanying wingmen drones to keep company, and of course satellites.
Its primary job during penetration is to keep the B-21 alive.
All other jets today do not perform penetration to that scale. Rafale does a little bit, probably 300-500 km, after some thorough intellignce gathering, but the rest have to rely on stealthy or speedy long range missiles for deep penetration. And this includes F-22 and F-35. Even J-20 and Su-57.
Alternatively, stealth drones built up to the same standards as the F-47 and B-21. The ADE/IAF are currently deciding on their main stealth drone for this mission for introduction from 2035. It's gonna start soon, within a few months.
So the F-47 is going to be an independent decision-maker, not just a fighter jet. And the IAF is developing its own satellite constellations. So if the IAF decides to import it, we can use it almost as effectively as the USAF without having to worry about their backend ecosystem. Of course, our version will need modifications like the F-35I, even if it is downgraded. The rest of the world without satellite constellations will require the US ecosystem.
But at the same time, we are going for a full unmanned capability when it comes to deep strike. We could end up being the first air force to do that, removing the need for a
legacy stealth jet for such a role (there, I said it
@Picdelamirand-oil).