The US Air Force secretly designed, built, and flew a new fighter jet – in just one year
produced a full-scale prototype jet in a staggeringly short period of time. While this process traditionally takes as long as a decade, the service appears to have created and tested the plane in the span of a year. Will Roper, the Air Force’s head of acquisition, told the branch ‘broke records’ flying the fighter, and said it’s ready to build the aircraft ‘in a way that has never
