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Opinion: The jury is still out on whether the NGAD contract should have been awarded, former Air Force Secretary Frank ...
The Boeing F-47 will soon be the world’s most advanced fighter jet on the planet—but it almost never happened.
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The Pentagon has awarded the long-awaited contract for the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance future fighter jet, ...
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The Air Force’s B-21 Raider Bomber Nightmare Has Just Begun
The U.S. Air Force needs more stealth bombers. Only 19 of the radar-evading B-2 Spirit war birds and the B-52 has served for ...
The U.S. Air Force’s F-47 sixth-generation stealth fighter may just be “Increment 1” of a family of Next Generation Air ...
The NGAD is set to succeed the F-22 Raptor, which entered service two decades ago, as the US Air Force's top air dominance ...
The U.S. Air Force contract award to Boeing for the F-47 fighter component of the Next-Generation Air Dominance system, coupled with an imminent Navy F/A-XX contract for a similarly advanced carrier ...
The decision is good news for Boeing's plant in St. Louis, which is scheduled to end production of the F/A-18 Super Hornet in 2027. Boeing lost its last bid to build a fighter jet when its X-32 lost ...
A separate Navy contract for its version of the NGAD fighter is still under competition between Northrop Grumman and Boeing. Last year, the Biden administration's Air Force secretary, Frank ...
Air Dominance—the ability to control and “own” the air domain—is a prerequisite for victory on any battlefield. It protects ...
Boeing’s F-47, the U.S. Air Force’s newest sixth-generation stealth fighter, may only be the first step in a broader strategy ...