Donald Trump took an oath three months ago as president of the United States, followed by unprecedented cuts to stop 'unnecessary expenses', a performance against illegal immigration and the resumption of global tariff wars. In the midst of his campaign to make 'America Great Again again', the Trump administration Boeing has awarded the contract to build the next generation of Air Dominance (NGAD), also known as the sixth generation Fighter Jet.
Interestingly, the BIDEN administration paused the award of the NGAD contracts in July 2024 to reconsider the requirements of the program in the midst of costs. Eight months later, the Trump government chose Boeing to build the sixth generation hunter. The F-47 (the new 6th generation Jager) will replace the F-22 Raptor-a fifth generation of air superiority Stealth Fighter, which has been employed for more than 20 years.
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'F-47: shaping the future of warfare'
The Staff Chef of the US Air Force, General David Allvin, has informed the media about the contract and said: “The next generation Air Dominance platform (the F -47) contract is a monumental jump forward in securing the American air superiority for the next decades.
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– US Air Force (@usairforce) March 21, 2025
“With the F -47 we not only build another hunter – we form the future of warfare and inform our enemies. This platform will be the most advanced, deadly and adaptable hunter ever developed – designed to surpass, outmanouvre and to surpass every opponent who challenges our good airmen.”
“Despite what our opponents claim, the F-47 Really the world's first crew member with sixth generation, was built to dominate and operate the most capable pear-opponent in the most dangerous threat environments that are conceivable,” said Gen Allvin, referring to China's “6th J-36-de J-de J-3-de-the j-3-generation Fightter-the j-3-generation Fightter-the j-3-generation Fightter”-de J-36-de J-36-de J-3-6-DE J-36-The Fightter-de-6-The Fighter-de-36-The Fightter-de J-36-The Fightter “-de-36-de J-36-de-36-de-36-The Fightter J-36-de Social Media by A Storm when a storm was fed in December. Information about the Chinese program is still under wraps.
Trump called F-47 a “nice song”. He is the 47th president of the United States.
'From break to full throttle'
The NGAD program is a “family of systems” to establish air superiority and work in hostile territory without threatening an attack. NGAD has two components: the Fighter Program and the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program to develop variants of non -torn, semi -autonomous aircraft that can fly as “loyal wingmen” with the NGAD hunter or other hunter planes.
In the 2025 financial year, the Biden administration asked $ 2.75 billion for the NGAD Fighter program and $ 557 million for the CCA. According to a US Congressional Report 2020, the NGAD program was estimated at $ 9 billion from FY2019 to FY2025, and a report of January 2025 projects an increase in the budget to $ 5.72 billion per FY2029.
Cost overruns were reported as the most important reason to place a break in the NGAD hunter program, in which officials doubted the ability of the Air Force to develop an NGAD hunter together with a CCA, B -21 Stealth Bomber -a 6th generation of Stealth Aircraft -and the development of the LGMAAL -35 the LGMAAL -35 Minuteman ICBM will replace.
B-21 Raider is the world's first plane of the sixth generation to reach the air
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According to a conference report from 2025, the Air Force announced the congress that the “Sentinel program surpassed its initial cost projections, so that at least an increase of 37% (from $ 118 million initial basic line costs up to $ 162 million in 2020 dollars) rose the costs per unity.” The US Air Force is planning to purchase more than 600 of such rockets in the coming decades.
On the NGAD hunter program, the Congress Report from 2025 said instead of building a new aircraft, the Air Force can consider another approach and “broken down large subsystems” such as the radar or weapons, and moving them to other platforms such as CCAs. The US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, however, ordered an investigation that supported a staffed aircraft and left it to the Trump government to decide on the future of the program.
Donald Trump, as he announced the contract, said: 'He cannot disclose the cost retail retail from the program for national security reasons, but in 2018 the congress was informed that a single Casco of NGAD would cost $ 300 million, which is considerably higher than all US planes that are currently employed.
Last year, in its report on the 'FY2025 Defense Kredits' Committee “committee”, the Senate Credit Committee advised to cut $ 557.1 million and transfer that amount to the CCA program. The committee stated that the NGAD and the CCA are being requested on the same financing line, limiting visibility in each program element.
The F-22 Raptor was proposed in the 1980s to replace the F-15 as a more powerful air superiority hunter. The plane, built by Lockheed Martin, joined in 2005, with advanced technology, stealth, super cruise and maneuverability. Initially, 750 F-22's were planned for purchasing, but four years after the service, the American Minister of Defense Robert Gates paved the program on 187 and closes the assembly line. An F-22 Airframe costs around $ 142 million each.
The focus then moved to the F-35 Lightning, a multi-role 5th gene fighter used by the US Air Force, Marine and Marines.
F-35 Lightning-a multi-role 5th gen Fighter used by the American Air Force, Marine and Marines.
Despite the advanced functions of the F-35, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in its report that it would take at least $ 1.7 trillion to buy, operate and maintain the plane in its 66-year life cycle due to high maintenance costs and development delays.
'China is a threat today'
With more than 800 military bases worldwide, 11 aircraft carriers and the most powerful defense technology, the US is a global force that can be adjusted and operate in every part of the world within a few minutes. Frank Kendall refuses to agree with China as a “threat of the future” and calls it a “threat” today. The congress report, which quotes analysts, states that in a fight with China (probably in the South Chinese Sea) where islands are separated from the coast with hundreds of kilometers, the “F-22 can be limited by its 450 nautical miles range and 2,000 pounds payloadcapacity. For a larger range of t-22 relationships and the F-22 relationships and the F-22 relationships and the F-22 relationships and on users KC-135, which is false, which is fillable, which is an attack of the number.
F-22 Raptor is an American technological miracle. It is the world's best stealth hunter for air superiority.
The NGAD Fighter program was considered to combat China as a “threat today” and to prevent anti-access/area desertial (A2/AD) options. In 2016, the US Department of Science Board (DSB) published a report on 'Air Dominance' to study 'the most effective science, technology, capacities and systems for maintaining air dominance after the following decade'.
It identified the “rapid rise of anti-access and area denial (A2/AD) strategies performed by state factors.”
For the past 20 years, China has expanded its war control capacities in the sea with a web of anti-ship, anti-air and ballistic missiles, aircraft carriers, submarines, fighter jets, fighter jets, etc.
With the growing dominance of China in the Indo-Pacific, the US needed a new hunter that was able to establish air superiority in the region, which compensated the deficits in the possibilities of the F-22 Raptor in the current environment.
In a 2016 report on Air Superiority 2030 flight plan, the necessity “for a family of integrated and network 'stand-off' (weapons launched from a distance) and 'stand-in' (weapons that penetrate and stops close to goals). It sought a” penetrating counter-air “option.
In 2020 the Air Force Acquisition Executive, Dr. Will Roper, said that the Air Force had flown a full flight demonstrator as part of the NGAD program.
Last week the US Air Force Chief of Staff Gen Allvin said that the F-47 “will fly during the Trump administration” because “the X-Planes for this aircraft quietly laid the foundation for the F-47-flying hundreds of hours, testing the F-47 of the innovations possibilities.”
