We have done a look at stories about foreign countries thinking twice about continuing their effots with the American Fighter jet F-35, which has had continual mission objective issues….
The plane is worth BILLIONS * for Lockheed Martin , its builder….
Me thinks the ALL THE SUDDEN Blazing announcment that Boeing, which has had trouble with thew B-737 Max, The KC-46 Aerial Tanker and new Air Force One is amazingly gonna be handed the “Sixth Generation Fighter Jet...F-47′ contract that may not make a profit if no one else except America buy’s it….
Boeing will develop and build a sixth-generation fighter jet for the Air Force, President Donald Trump announced Friday, ending months of deliberation about whether to proceed with the effort and how much it might cost.
“At my direction, the United States Air Force is moving forward with the world’s first sixth- generation fighter jet, number six, six-generation, nothing in the world comes even close to it, and it’ll be known as the F-47,” Trump announced at the White House on Friday alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Air Force Chief Gen. David Allvin.
“After a rigorous and thorough competition between some of America’s top aerospace companies, the Air Force is going to be awarding the contract for the Next Generation Air Dominance platform to Boeing,” Trump said.
The announcement delivers a shot in the arm to Boeing, which has been hemorrhaging money and struggling to deliver on key military programs such as the KC-46 tanker, T-7 trainer, and new VC-25 presidential jets. Trump has publicly expressed ire over Boeing’s late delivery of the new Air Force Ones, and has reportedly considered alternatives in the meantime.
Boeing has been pouring billions into building new facilities over the past few years, placing a big bet on NGAD and other next-generation programs in the hopes of finally returning its defense arm to profitability.
Boeing beat out Lockheed Martin, its only rival for the NGAD contract after Northrop Grumman dropped out last year.
The loss means Lockheed will be out of sixth-generation fighter programs for the foreseeable future since the company has reportedly been dropped from the Navy’s F/A-XX program. And it comes as Trump’s threats to allies have thrown at least some future F-35 sales into doubt.
The Air Force plans to spend $20 billion over the next five years to develop NGAD, according to its 2025 budget request, and Boeing is poised to receive hundreds of billions over the course of the program’s lifespan.
While the specifics of NGAD remain classified, the jet is expected to be highly stealthy with advanced engines, sensors, and weapons. It is envisioned as the centerpiece of a family of systems, with new drones called Collaborative Combat Aircraft in development to fly alongside the jet.
An experimental version of the plane has “secretly been flying for almost five years,” Trump said, adding that the F-47 will be equipped with “state-of-the-art stealth technology—it is virtually unseeable,” and that the jet will fly with “many drones, as many as we want.”
In a statement, Allvin said the new fighter would arrive by 2028….
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Biden stopped development of this aircraft previously due to cost concerns….(Musk???)
The NGAD effort was paused in 2024 over cost concerns — a major focus of the Trump administration, which has tasked billionaire donor Elon Musk with slashing government spending through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The Congressional Budget Office estimated in 2018 that the NGAD airframe could cost up to $300 million apiece — significantly more than various other aircraft currently in the US inventory.
In 2024, “officials cast doubt on whether the Air Force could afford to develop the NGAD alongside programs including the B-21 Raider bomber and the Minuteman III ICBM replacement,” the Congressional Research Service said in a report earlier this year.
A senior Air Force officer said earlier this month that the service conducted a study following the pause, which concluded that “not only in the past, not only in the present but in the future, air superiority matters.”
“What this study told us is we tried a whole bunch of different options and there is no more viable option than NGAD to achieve air superiority in this highly contested environment,” Major General Joseph Kunkel told the AFA Warfare Symposium in Colorado.
The F-47 will replace the F-22 Raptor, which features stealth technology, a high degree of maneuverability and the ability to supercruise, or maintain supersonic flight without afterburners.
Little is known about the capabilities of the F-47, but Trump said the new jet will be “virtually unseeable” with unmatched maneuverability and power, and the ability to fly “with many drones, as many as we want, and that’s something that no other plane can do.”
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Boeing will get few if ANY commitments for foreign export sales while Trump does his Tarriff thing, or is out of office….
image…24 News HD
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