Boeing won a contract March 21 to develop a next-generation combat aircraft (6th generation fighter) for the U.S. Air Force. Boeing and Lockheed Martin were competing for the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) family of systems.
The US Air Force says the F-47 will be the world’s first crewed sixth-generation fighter. It is built to dominate the most capable peer adversary and operate in the most perilous threat environments imaginable. For the past five years, the X-planes for this aircraft have been quietly laying the foundation for the F-47 — flying hundreds of hours, testing cutting-edge concepts, and proving that we can push the envelope of technology with confidence. The F-47 will fly during President Trump’s administration.
Compared to the F-22, the F-47 will cost less and be more adaptable to future threats – and we will have more of the F-47s in our inventory. The F-47 will have significantly longer range, more advanced stealth, be more sustainable, supportable, and have higher availability than our fifth-generation fighters.
The cost-plus contract award for NGAD also offers a reprieve for a defense and space business within Boeing that has reported over $18 billion in reach-forward losses on fixed-price military and NASA programs since 2014, including $5 billion in new charges from 2024 alone. Despite the losses, Boeing invested heavily to win the NGAD contract, including starting construction nearly two years ago on a new factory in St. Louis to produce the aircraft.
The engine award has not been decided. GE Aerospace’s XA102 or Pratt & Whitney’s XA10 are competing for the engine contract. Both feature a new, three-stream architecture that increases bypass flow in cruise mode to reduce fuel consumption by more than 20%.
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Way off topic dude!
Read the article, Dumbass who posts comments!!!! the Military named the plane!!!!
“The F-47 designation was chosen in consultation with @secdef & carries multiple significant meanings. It honors the legacy of the P-47, whose contributions to air superiority during WW2 remain historic” “Also, the number pays tribute to the founding year of our incredible
@usairforce, while also recognizing the 47th @POTUS’s pivotal support for the development of the world’s FIRST sixth-generation fighter”
Dear lord, you would certainly be in the mix of people that would vote down the cure to cancer if it came under the current POTUS
Can it be sold to anyone other than the US military?
Trump is turning everyone but Putin into non-friends, who don’t trust the US.
If the US wants to restore friendly relations with the remaining democracies, the US will need to take Putin’s puppet out of the Oval Office & put him in a jail cell where he belongs.
Great. And who’s going to financially benefit? Always look at who makes the money, and why. Trump and his minions just declared the “new F-47 our latest fighter plane” Why? He’s the 47’th POTUS. Don’t believe me? Look it up dumbasses who voted for him!