Why The US Air Force's New T-7A Trainer Is Quietly Becoming Its 1st Software-Defined Combat Jet

The United States Air Force (USAF) has needed a new trainer aircraft for well over a decade, as its current trainer, the Northrop T-38 Talon, has been in service for more than sixty years. While the aircraft has been repeatedly upgraded, it was originally designed to prepare pilots for aircraft such as the Republic F-105 Thunderchief and the McDonnell DouglasF-4 Phantom II. The age of the T-38, combined with its incompatibility to prepare student pilots for the new generation of aircraft, has only heightened the need for a new training aircraft.

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