{"id":305523,"date":"2025-03-22T06:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T06:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=305523"},"modified":"2025-03-23T07:58:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T07:58:03","slug":"boeing-wins-contract-for-ngad-fighter-jet-dubbed-f-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=305523","title":{"rendered":"Boeing wins contract for NGAD fighter jet, dubbed F-47"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Losey \u2013 Defense News March 21, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Pentagon has awarded the long-awaited contract for the Air Force\u2019s Next Generation Air Dominance future fighter jet<\/a>, known as NGAD, to Boeing, President Donald Trump announced Friday.<\/p>\n

The sixth-generation fighter, which will replace the F-22 Raptor, will be designated the F-47, Trump said. It will have \u201cstate-of-the-art stealth technologies [making it] virtually unseeable,\u201d and will fly alongside multiple autonomous drone wingmen known as collaborative combat aircraft.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something the likes of which nobody has ever seen before,\u201d 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\u2019s military deputy for acquisition, technology and logistics. \u201cIn terms of all the attributes of a fighter jet, there\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica\u2019s enemies will never see it coming,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

A statement from Boeing was not immediately available.<\/p>\n

Allvin said in a statement Friday that experimental versions of the NGAD have been flying for the last five years, \u201cflying hundreds of hours, testing cutting-edge concepts and proving that we can push the envelope of technology with confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe F-47 has unprecedented maturity,\u201d Allvin said. \u201cWhile 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allvin said the F-47 would cost less than the F-22 and \u201cbe more adaptable to future threats,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

Trump declined to reveal the price of NGAD, saying that would reveal some of the jet\u2019s highly classified technology and size.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Trump also left the door open to selling versions of NGAD to allies \u2014 though he said those might be \u201ctoned-down\u201d versions.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause someday, maybe they\u2019re not our allies, right?\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

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Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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