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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 (NGAD) platform to Boeing,
Trump said
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
Nothing in the world comes even close to it, and it’ll be known as the F-47. The generals picked a title, and it’s a beautiful number, F-47,
Trump, the 47th US President, said during remarks at the Oval OfficeWe recognise the importance of designing, building a sixth-generation fighter capability for the United States Air Force,
Steve Parker, the interim president and chief executive of Boeing Defence, Space and Security, said in a release
America’s enemies will never see it coming,
he continuedBecause someday, maybe they’re not our allies, right?”
Trump saidWe are not just building another fighter,
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The F-47 will have significantly longer range, more advanced stealth, be more sustainable, supportable, and have higher availability than our fifth-generation fighters,
said Allvin
The F-47 is equipped with state-of-the-art stealth technologies, virtually unseeable and unprecedented power,
He added ... and called
This plane flies with drones. It flies with many, many drones, as many as you want,
Trump said
We are getting a new Air Force One, if Boeing could ever finish the damn thing,
Trump said in FebruaryIt’s something the likes of which nobody has seen before, ... and this has been in the works for a long period of time.”
Trump saidCompared 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,
said Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General David Allvin
The win is a major boost for the company, which has struggled with cost overruns, schedule delays and execution on other DoD programs,
said Roman Schweizer, an analyst at TD CowenOur allies are calling constantly,
Trump added, saying
A program of this size and complexity requires careful oversight to make sure it doesn't fall behind or have cost overruns,
Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, a former US Navy combat pilot, said in a statementThis is the right decision to avoid costly delays and move forward with our next generation fighter,
senator Mark Kelly, a Democrat from Arizona and a member of the Armed Services Committee, said in a statement
While disappointed with this outcome, we are confident we delivered a competitive solution. We will await further discussions with the US Air Force,
Lockheed Martin said in a statementIt will allow us to maintain our competitive edge over the Chinese military and deter our adversaries, in large part due to the cutting-edge combination of manned and unmanned systems,
Kelly saidWe can't tell you the price, because it would give way to some of the technology and some of the size of the plane,
Trump said