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Donald Trump announced that Boeing will manufacture the F-47, the first sixth generation hunt, considered the most lethal plane ever built.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, pronounces a speech from the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington DC, where he announced a defense program that includes the development of the new generation combat plane F-47, by Boeing, for the US Air Force. (Free Press Photo: EFE)
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced this Friday, March 21 that the production of the New Generation of the Army, baptized as F-47, has been awarded to Boeing, a manufacturer that still faces a moment of intense scrutiny for the failures in its commercial aircraft.
Trump made the announcement at the White House, accompanied by the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and assured that Boeing’s F-47 has been in the development phase for five years and will be the first sixth generation hunt and the most lethal plane ever built.
The president highlighted the capabilities of the new plane in terms of payload, speed and maneuverability, and considered that a “beautiful” number has been used for the name of the apparatus, referring to the fact that his current mandate is the quadrages seventh of a president of the United States.
Trump did not want to talk about the price of the project or what it will cost to manufacture each unit, with the argument that it is a national security issue, “because that would imply revealing part of the technology and part of the size of the plane.”
The digital medium Marketwatch He pointed out that the contract is valued at 20,000 million dollars, a figure in which US media coincide.
In addition to Boeing, other important defense contractors, such as Northrop Grumman-which produces fighters such as the F-18 or the F-35, the most advanced in the country-or Lockheed Martin-which manufactures the F-16-were developing their prototypes for the F/A-XX program of sixth generation combat planes.
Boeing, who had never obtained such a contract-the F-15 was originally awarded to his then rival McDonnell Douglas, absorbed in 1997-is dealing with a new scrutiny for the problems recorded in his 737 Max. The Trump administration has pledged to restore the reputation and culture of company security.