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President Donald Trump introduced the Pentagon’s determination to maneuver ahead with a next-generation fighter jet titled F-47 on Friday in joint remarks alongside Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth from the Oval Workplace.

The president went on to say an experimental model of the F-47 has been flying for nearly 5 years.

“It’s one thing the likes of which no one has seen earlier than,” he mentioned, “and this has been within the works for a protracted time period.”

Boeing will spearhead the event of the F-47 Air Pressure’s fighter, following a “rigorous” competitors between the uppermost aerospace corporations.

Extra on the jet: Late-last 12 months, the Air Pressure paused the choice on tips on how to proceed with the sixth-generation fighter. The Air Pressure mentioned in December that then-Secretary Frank Kendall would defer the choice to the Trump administration.

The Subsequent Technology Air Dominance program (NGAD) is meant to provide the US navy’s sixth-generation fighter jet, newer and extra superior than the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lighting II, which has suffered from main value overruns and delays.

Elon Musk has railed in opposition to the F-35, as a substitute advocating for unmanned drone swarms as a less expensive, simpler weapon. On social media in November, Musk mentioned “In the meantime, some idiots are nonetheless constructing manned fighter jets just like the F-35.”

When Lockheed Martin was awarded the F-35 in October 2001, the weapons maker mentioned this system would value roughly $200 billion. The corporate’s CEO promised the F-35 could be “succesful and inexpensive” and be produced “on schedule and value.” Greater than twenty years later, the overall value of this system has exceeded $2 trillion, based on the Authorities Accountability Workplace (GAO), because the navy companies “plan to make use of it much less.”