This aircraft may break the Pentagon tradition of over budget and behind schedule.
The glory days of fighter aircraft dogfights are not gone — just different. On March 21, President Donald Trump announced from the Oval Office that the US Air Force had selected a winner in the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) sixth-generation jet fighter competition: the Boeing Company’s F-47, which beat out Lockheed. In the future, an adversary will be killed by a missile fired from beyond visual range by a fighter never seen.
The F-47 Takes the Stage
The US Air Force believes this jet represents a big leap in technological capability needed to dominate such near-peer adversaries as China, which is surging ahead. As the Daily Caller explained, “The NGAD program originally came from a Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)…
