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This is a list of military aircraft that are being developed for use by the United States military in the near future.

For aircraft in-service see List of active United States military aircraft.

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Aircraft Type Operators Notes
Fixed-wing Aircraft
Boeing T-7 Red Hawk Trainer Air Force To enter service around 2028.
Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider Stealth Strategic bomber Air Force To enter service in 2025.
Boeing MQ-25 Stingray Unmanned combat aerial vehicle for Aerial refueling Navy To enter service in 2026
Boeing E-7 Wedgetail Airborne early warning and control Air Force To enter service around 2027.
Lockheed Martin E-130J Airborne command post Navy To enter service after 2027.
Boeing VC-25B Presidential Transport Air Force To enter service between 2027-2028
F/A-XX program Multirole combat aircraft Navy To enter service around 2030.
Next Generation Air Dominance Air superiority fighter Air Force To enter service around 2030.
Survivable Airborne Operations Center Airborne command post Air Force To enter service around 2032.
KC-Z Next Generation Air-Refueling System Tanker/Transport Air Force To enter service around 2040
High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System ISR/SIGINT Army To enter service around 2027.
Helicopters
Future Vertical Lift Helicopters Multirole Helicopters Army Version to enter service between 2025-2035.
Bell V-280 Valor Tiltrotor Military helicopter Army To enter service around 2030

See also

References

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  2. Budget Pressures Seen as Biggest Risk to Long Range Bomber Program Archived 2013-08-18 at archive.today Nationaldefensemagazine.org, September 2013.
  3. LsGrone, Sam. "MQ-25A Stingray IOC Pushed to 2026 Following Manufacturing Delays". USNI News.
  4. "Air Force chooses Boeing E-7 Wedgetail to replace old AWACS planes". Breaking Defense. 26 April 2022. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
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  6. USN, Industry Seek New Concepts For 6th-generation Fighter - Defensenews.com, 10 July 2013
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  12. Mizokami, Kyle. "The V-280 Valor Will Become the Army's Next-Gen Assault Transport". Popular Mechanics.
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