Stephen Losey – Defense News March 21, 2025
The Pentagon has awarded the long-awaited contract for the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance future fighter jet, known as NGAD, to Boeing, President Donald Trump announced Friday.
The sixth-generation fighter, which will replace the F-22 Raptor, will be designated the F-47, Trump said. It will have “state-of-the-art stealth technologies [making it] virtually unseeable,” and will fly alongside multiple autonomous drone wingmen known as collaborative combat aircraft.
“It’s something the likes of which nobody has ever seen before,” Trump said in an Oval Office announcement with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin and Lt. Gen. Dale White, the Air Force’s military deputy for acquisition, technology and logistics. “In terms of all the attributes of a fighter jet, there’s never been anything even close to it, from speed to maneuverability to what it can have [as] payload. And this has been in the works for a long period of time.”
“America’s enemies will never see it coming,” he continued.
The competition for NGAD was between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, after Northrop Grumman announced in 2023 that it would not compete for the program as a prime contractor.
A statement from Boeing was not immediately available.
Allvin said in a statement Friday that experimental versions of the NGAD have been flying for the last five years, “flying hundreds of hours, testing cutting-edge concepts and proving that we can push the envelope of technology with confidence.”
Allvin said the significant advance experimentation and work on the F-47 will allow the service to fly the jet by the end of Trump’s administration.
“The F-47 has unprecedented maturity,” Allvin said. “While the F-22 is currently the finest air superiority fighter in the world, and its modernization will make it even better, the F-47 is a generational leap forward. The maturity of the aircraft at this phase in the program confirms its readiness to dominate the future fight.”
Allvin said the F-47 would cost less than the F-22 and “be more adaptable to future threats,” and that the Air Force will have more NGAD fighters in its fleet than Raptors. The Air Force now has about 180 F-22s which cost $143 million apiece.
Trump declined to reveal the price of NGAD, saying that would reveal some of the jet’s highly classified technology and size.
The price of NGAD has presented a major vulnerability to the program, one which placed it in jeopardy last year. Former Air Force Sec. Frank Kendall paused the program in July 2024 after cost estimates came in around triple that of the F-35, or as much as $300 million per tail.
Trump also left the door open to selling versions of NGAD to allies — though he said those might be “toned-down” versions.
“Because someday, maybe they’re not our allies, right?” Trump said.
And guess who will get this latest monstrosity for free??? Got it in one. The kikes.
The F22 is so bad, the US won’t even sell it. The F35 isn’t combat ready, even today, and numerous buyers have slashed orders, because it’s crap.
Nazi UK won’t be buying the F47, and are partnering with Italy and Japan to build a 6th gen fighter/bomber.
The reason why Boeing got this contract, is that it’s in the US Nazi security interests. Boeing’s commercial wing should have been closed down, and it’s directors behind bars.
This is simply debt propping up a dinosaur, and this plane, if it gets built, will cost way over $500 million each, and it’s going to be crap.
You’ll note, this, probably manned plane required drones for support, a bit like redundant aircraft carriers. As for its stealth claims, they are rediculous. Iran sent Israeli F35s fleeing, unable to get anywhere near targets in Iran.
Another article said it was replacing the F-35 at $300 million each when the US has no money and is hugely in debt? The IMF just writes the numbers in its account books, says “Now you owe us another $300M x however many planes,” and they get built, no actual money changing hands, just banks trading numbers in their account books?
Instead of building upon failure and not letting go of the stealth concept, and after all a Russian did once say “There is no such thing as an invisible plane”, they are hoping to iron out its failings with a whole new plane full of potential failings because they didn’t sort out the last lot before moving the program on. All they’ll probably be able to say about it is, “Yeah, but doesn’t it look cool?” Not in smoking heaps it won’t.
Millions more hungry, homeless and cold Americans to feed the MIC.
Indeed..
Let’s face it only kamikaze pilots are going to fly anything that comes out of the Boeing migrant camp…and if you aren’t you will be..
presumably they’ll be able to eject quite quickly though, because the doors will have already fallen off..and probably the engines too..which are all made from components manufactured in China..
making it much easier for the women pilots, troons and diversity hires, to crash them into a taxiing 737 at Denver airport..
and thus earn their wings, albeit posthumously..
how long will it take from drawing board to production and approval – 5 years? with USA angling for hostilities with Iran (and Russia and China) it will never make it to static flight
ole Chessie Nuts on form today…Hahaha!
the Houthis will knock it out the sky with a ground-to-air sandal
“Built with (Gay) Pride in the USA”
…by chinese engineers
Invisible to Iranian radar…because the pilot shit himself & turned back haha
@ CARL JONES
the germans will buy the F35 like they bought
once the Starfighters . again they are wasting
taxpayers money, bankeroting next generation .