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The F-47 NGAD fighter is already being built: Inside the "X-plane" tests that fooled America's rivals

Summary and Key Points: Boeing has shocked the defense world by moving the F-47 sixth-generation fighter into production just months after its 2025 contract award. -This unprecedented turnaround, ...
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The U.S. Air Force Has a F-47 NGAD Fighter Math Problem

Key Points and Summary - The F-47, the crewed centerpiece of America’s NGAD program, is being built to control packs of Collaborative Combat Aircraft, forcing the Air Force to rethink how many ...
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First US sixth-gen fighter jet will be the F-47, Trump says, and Boeing, not Lockheed, is going to build it

Boeing has been selected to build the US Air Force's sixth-gen fighter aircraft. The Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter is expected to succeed the F-22 Raptor as the top air dominance ...
NextBigFuture

F-47 Next Generation Fighter Starts Production – Dawn of 6th Gen NGAD

On September 22, 2025, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin said Boeing has started making the first F-47 airframes under the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program. This is the start ...
The National Interest

Canada’s Sixth-Gen Fighter Snub Is Straining Its Alliance with the United States

Sixth-generation airpower is not about another incremental step in fighter capability. It is about building an integrated network of command, control, sensor fusion, and AI-enabled kill chains that ...