US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that Boeing has been awarded a major contract for the Air Force’s high -technical F -47 fighter plane.
The contract aims to continue the development of replacement of F-22 stealth warplane-which has been in operation for some two decades-with a new, more advanced aircraft that will be able to operate with uncrewed drones.
“After a rigorous and intense competition between some top aerospace companies in the US, the Air Force is going to contract Boeing for the next generation air dominance (NGAD) platform,” Trump told reporters at the Oval Office.
He said that the price of the contract cannot be disclosed due to security reasons.
Trump said, “Nothing in the world comes close to it, and it will be known as F -47, the generals chose a title, and it is a beautiful number, F -47,” Trump said, Trump said, who is the 47th President of the United States.
Announcement is a boon for Boeing, which faced a difficulty last year in which it was struggling with a long labor strike and security problems.
The NGAD’s effort was halted on cost concerns in 2024 – a major focus of the Trump administration, which has tasked the billionaire donor Elon Musk to reduce government spending through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The Congress budget office estimated in 2018 that the cost of NGAD airframe could be up to $ 300 million – currently US inventory is much higher than various other aircraft.
A senior Air Force official said earlier this month that Seva did a study after a stop last year, which concluded that “not only in the past, not only in the past, not only in the present but in the future, in cases of air superiority.”
“This study told us that we have tried to make a whole group of different options and there is no more viable option than the NGAD to achieve air superiority in this excessive election environment,” Major General Joseph Kunkel said in a seminar in Colorado.
The F-47 F-22 will replace the raptor aircraft, which has development in the 1980s.
The F-22 has secret technology, high level dynamics and ability to supercruzes, or the ability to maintain supersonic flight without afterburners.
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