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Boeing Will Make The Next US Fighter Jet, To Be Designated F-47

www.theguardian.com

Trump awards Boeing contract to build next-generation US fighter jet

Wall Street Journal Article archive.ph link

Boeing has been awarded the contract for the NGAD program, and will produce the next generation of fighter jets used by the United States. The aircraft is said to be the first 6th generation fighter, said to employ novel technologies such as AI assistance. It will be part of a new "family of systems" that will include unmanned "loyal wingman" fighter aircraft . The designation F-47 appears to pay homage to Donald Trump, the 47th president.

The Wall Street Journal says that the price tag per aircraft will be "several hundred million each", for reference, the final cost per F-35 is around $80 million.

This feels like a story from The Onion ngl.

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Boeing Will Make The Next US Fighter Jet

Lmao some Boeing CEO about to be rich while these rust buckets will be falling out of the sky due to cut corners.
Also wtf is that concept art. Why even have a physical stand like that? It's 2025, not 1985. Also the art is terrible, is it AI generated? It shows nothing, it looks like art for a bad movie teaser.
The US is a joke, delusional and stuck in an 80s way of thinking.
- Also the art is terrible, is it AI generated? It shows nothing, it looks like art for a bad movie teaser.
  The US is a joke, delusional and stuck in an 80s way of thinking.
  It's a tie-in teaser for Top Gun 3: Xenu's Revenge
- The QUALITY presentation here makes me think that Donny was given the briefing on it last night and just had to have an oval office show and tell session about it today.
  Compare that to the reveal of their most recent bomber which included a teaser trailer, live stream, and E3-ass presentation with music and speeches and everything.

Lmao the AI grift is moving into the military industrial sector.
This is the dumbest timeline.
appears to pay homage to Donald Trump, the 47th president
Kinda appropriate ngl. Name it after a dumbass who loves McDonalds, real estate, and telling people what to do. Ur-American shit.

For reference, the final cost per F-35 is around $80 million.
The F-35 project cost is in the trillions. Due to the way the money is spent and the way it's highly protected by pols - it's been one cost overrun after another. The current cost estimate is something like 400% of what the original estimate was.
The Wall Street Journal says that the price tag per aircraft will be "several hundred million each",
Ah, I get it. Cost overrun. Cost overrun. Cost overrun. Cost overrun. Cost overrun. Cost overrun. Etc. It'll be the world's first billion dollar fighter jet!
- It'll be the world's first billion dollar jet!
  Average cost of a B-2 I think is around $2.13 billion.
- Have you noticed that a BILLION dollars is the new million? I mean, just the way they talk about these multibillion dollar boondoggles. My phone just autocorrected "multibillion" to "multimillion". The world hasn't caught up to these consolidations of cash hoards, but the media has accidentally given away the game. Even the Democrats tried to downplay how much a billion dollars is after pissing away a billion and a half within six months with a losing campaign.
  
  Even the Democrats tried to downplay how much a billion dollars is after pissing away a billion and a half within six months with a losing campaign.
  $1,000,000,000 is a lot of money to piss away in such a short time. One of Kamala's friends got hundreds of thousands for consulting or whatever.

healthcare pls
- No.

Every civilian it kills will be turned into an NFT

Critical support to Boeing in their mission to hobble the force projection abilities of the United States
The designation F-47 appears to pay homage to Donald Trump, the 47th president.

"Yeah, we went with Boeing. A lot of people, not happy with Boeing. A lot of bad stories about Boeing. But we're going with Boeing! I figure now we're trying to kill people, so who better than Boeing?"

OK, Melina, you're laying it on a little thick with this /c/fakenews post --
Oh fuck

Boeing

It's so weird that an empire hell bent on violent supremacy just hands the R&D over to proven losers who will undoubtedly make a shoddy product that will make the US empire the laughingstock of the "superpowers".
- The nazis did the same thing during WWII. Tiger tanks were several magnitudes more expensive in both labor hours, cash, and materials, yet would get 1-shot almost a kilometer out by T-35s and Shermans, while their own shots bounced off a point blank ranges.
  Helped Germany go from being one of the most powerful countries in the world to the 5th. most powerful in Berlin.
  
  It's really funny how Western media Nazi washed the thing so much
  Whenever a Tiger is encountered in American film, it's treated like it's Metal Gear, but it was an over-engineered, under-armored, unreliable hunk of junk
  Also, somewhat related, I found this caption of a picture of a Tiger amusing
  Tiger I that knocked out the first M26 Pershing in combat. It then backed into a pile of rubble and became stuck, leading to the crew abandoning it.
- Profits before product efficiency. Truly the American military represents the very core of America.

The f-35 hasn't even seen combat, has it?
Last I heard the fuckin things were still falling out of the sky
- F-35s as a type have yet to down any manned aircraft but they have been used to take out drones and do ground attack roles. IIRC they were used against lebanon last year and they were what the Israelis used to retaliate against Iran after operation True Promise II.
  Fun Fact: Currently the F-22 type has one recorded air to air victory. It was achieved in 2022 against one of those spy balloons everyone was freaking out about. The F-22 is set to retire and be replaced by what is now known as the F-47.
  
  Fun Fact: Currently the F-22 type has one recorded air to air victory. It was achieved in 2022 against one of those spy balloons everyone was freaking out about. The F-22 is set to retire and be replaced by what is now known as the F-47.
  And it didn't even flex on the balloon by taking it out with it's guns, it shot a heat seeker from 50 miles away like a betazoid coward.

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