The F-47 is “something the likes of which nobody has seen before,” the US president has said
US President Donald Trump has said he has awarded Boeing the contract to build the Air Force’s next-generation fighter jet.
The state-of-the-art aircraft will be named the F-47, Trump, the 47th US president, announced at the Oval Office on Friday.
“At my direction, the US Air Force is moving forward with the world’s first sixth-generation fighter jet, number six, sixth generation, nothing in the world comes even close to it,” he said.
According to the president, the jet has been in the works “for a long period of time” and “will be the most lethal aircraft ever built.”
The program was previously known as Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD), with the Air Force acknowledging that it had flown a full-scale prototype of the jet during Trump’s first presidency.
The F-47 “flies with drones. It flies with many, many drones, as many as you want….
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