The US administration on Friday (March 21) announced the awarding of its Next Generation Air Dominance programme contract to Boeing in delivering its sixth generation fight jets in the next few years.
Donald Trump, the 47th president of the United States, announced the new jet's name, the F-47, clarifying that the generals and not himself picked the name.
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Donald Trump, the 47th president of the United States, announced the new jet's name, the F-47, clarifying that the generals and not himself picked the name.
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00:00You see how beautiful that is, but that's just a very small part of it.
00:07I wasn't surprised.
00:08I was wondering, how much are you going to show if they came in with that?
00:11You see a wheel in the front?
00:13That's about it.
00:14SBA, they're all set for it.
00:16They're waiting for it.
00:17It'll be serviced much better than it has.
00:20But we're here for a reason today that is very exciting, and I'm thrilled to announce
00:25that at my direction, the United States Air Force is moving forward with the world's first
00:31sixth-generation fighter jet.
00:34Number six.
00:35Sixth generation.
00:37Nothing in the world comes even close to it, and it'll be known as the F-47.
00:43The generals picked a title, and it's a beautiful number, F-47.
00:50It's something the likes of which nobody has seen before in terms of all of the attributes
00:57of a fighter jet.
00:58There's never been anything even close to it, from speed to maneuverability to what
01:02it can have to payload.
01:05And this has been in the works for a long period of time.
01:10After a rigorous and thorough competition between some of America's top aerospace companies,
01:14the Air Force is going to be awarding the contract for the next-generation air dominance
01:20platform to Boeing.
01:23The F-47 will be the most advanced, most capable, most lethal aircraft ever built.
01:29An experimental version of the plane has secretly been flying for almost five years, and we're
01:35confident that it massively overpowers the capabilities of any other nation.
01:40There's no other nation.
01:41We've flown every other plane.
01:42I've seen every one of them.
01:44And it's not even close.
01:45This is at the next level.
01:47The F-47 is equipped with state-of-the-art stealth technology.
01:51It's virtually unseeable and unprecedented power.
01:57It's got the most power of any jet of its kind ever made.
02:02Maneuverability, likewise, is the — there's never been anything like it, despite the power
02:07and speed.
02:10Its speed is top — it's over two, which is something that you don't hear very often.
02:18America's enemies will never see it coming.
02:20Hopefully, we won't have to use it for that purpose, but you have to have it.
02:24And if it ever happens, they won't know what the hell hit them.
02:30A new fleet of these magnificent planes will be built in the — and in the — during
02:35my administration over the next couple of years.
02:38It's ready to go.
02:39They've already built much of what has to be built in terms of production, including
02:45the sheds.
02:46We'll ensure that the USA continues to dominate the skies.
02:50We've given an order for a lot.
02:52We can't tell you the price because it would give — it would give way to some of the
02:56technology and some of the size of the plane — good-sized plane.
03:00Well, Mr. President, this is a big day.
03:03This is a big day for our warfighters.
03:04This is a big day for our country, a big day in the world.
03:08The name of this program is the Next Generation of Air Dominance.
03:12And, Mr. President, because of your leadership, your clarity, we are going to — America
03:17is going to have generations in the future of air dominance because of this sixth-generation
03:25fighter.
03:26This is more Air Force.
03:29This is more options for the president.
03:31We say as our mission in the United States Air Force is to fly, fight, and win air power
03:36anytime, anywhere.
03:37If you want to go anywhere, you have to have a platform that gets you anywhere.
03:40This provides the president options from the very one end, which is a quick response, and
03:47then we can get right back into fighting stance without having to deploy troops that are going
03:50to take maybe months and cost more lives.
03:53We can be back in fighting stance, and maybe we restore that deterrence, all the way to
03:56decisive victory as part of a joint force that is the most lethal and capable military
04:01ever known in history.
04:02That's what we provide now, and this allows us to provide it into the future.
04:07It's more deterrence, more capability.
04:10It's what peace through strength looks like into the future, Mr. President.
04:12And so we're very proud of that.
04:14And all we can say is, on behalf of the United States Air Force, let's deliver.
04:19This plane flies with drones.
04:21It flies with many, many drones, as many as you want.
04:24And it's a technology that's new, but it doesn't fly by itself.
04:29It flies with many drones, as many as we want, and that's something that no other plane can do.