March 23, 2025, 9:03 pm
Boeing will develop the American 6th generation fighter, now named F-47.
The announcement was made personally by U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin.
This initiates a new era for the US military.
A 6th generation fighter is expected to include man-unmanned teaming capability with AI-controlled missions, the ability to control a swarm of drones, greater battlefield data fusion, more powerful sensors, greater electrical power generation to equip directed-energy weapons, a virtual cockpit helmet-mounted display allowing the pilot 360-degree vision, etc.
Gen. David W. Allvin, in an apparent dig at China, said, “Despite what our adversaries claim, the F-47 is truly the world’s first crewed sixth-generation fighter,”
In this video, Defense Updates reports on 11 key aspects of the F-47 fighter.
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Chapters:
0:00 TITLE
00:11 INTRODUCTION
01:10 DESIGNATION
01:48 TRUMP ADMIN PUSHES THROUGH NGAD PROGRAM
04:10 BIG WIN FOR BOEING
05:03 THE CONTRACT
06:21 FLYING FOR A FEW YEARS ALREADY
06:58 DESIGNED FOR AIR DOMINANCE
08:12 GROUNDBREAKING STEALTH & HIGHER COMBAT AVAILABILITY
09:34 GREATER RANGE with MAJOR ENGINE UPGRADE
10:43 MAN UNMANNED TEAMING
11:26 PRICING IS KEPT SECRET
12:24 EXPORT POSSIBILITY UNKNOWN
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