Trump Awards Subsequent-Technology F-47 Fighter Jet Contract To Boeing

Washington:

US President Donald Trump introduced Friday that Boeing has been awarded a significant contract for the Air Pressure’s high-tech next-generation F-47 fighter aircraft.

The contract is geared toward persevering with the event of the substitute for the F-22 stealth warplane — which has been in operation for some 20 years — with a brand new, extra superior plane that can be capable to function alongside uncrewed drones.

“After a rigorous and thorough competitors between a few of America’s prime aerospace firms, the Air Pressure goes to be awarding the contract for the Subsequent Technology Air Dominance (NGAD) platform to Boeing,” Trump advised reporters on the Oval Workplace.

He mentioned the worth of the contract couldn’t be revealed for safety causes.

“Nothing on this planet comes even near it, and it will be often called the F-47, the generals picked a title, and it is a fantastic quantity, F-47,” mentioned Trump, who’s the forty seventh president of america.

The announcement is a boon for Boeing, which confronted a tough final yr by which it struggled with a prolonged labor strike and security issues.

The NGAD effort was paused in 2024 over price issues — a significant focus of the Trump administration, which has tasked billionaire donor Elon Musk with slashing authorities spending by means of the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE).

The Congressional Price range Workplace estimated in 2018 that the NGAD airframe might price as much as $300 million apiece — considerably greater than numerous different plane at the moment within the US stock.

A senior Air Pressure officer mentioned earlier this month that the service carried out a research following the pause final yr, which concluded that “not solely previously, not solely within the current however sooner or later, air superiority issues.”

“What this research advised us is we tried a complete bunch of various choices and there’s no extra viable possibility than NGAD to realize air superiority on this extremely contested surroundings,” Main Normal Joseph Kunkel advised a symposium in Colorado.

The F-47 will change the F-22 Raptor plane, the event of which dates to the Nineteen Eighties.

The F-22 options stealth know-how, a excessive diploma of maneuverability and the flexibility to supercruise, or keep supersonic flight with out afterburners.

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