This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available. Today, United States President Donald Trump announced from the White House's Oval Office that Boeing has won the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) contract for the United States Air Force (USAF).
Additionally, President Trump kindly shared that the USAF decided after a "very tough competition" that the designated F-47 has "produced numbers nobody's seen before" in "almost five years" of a highly classified prototype and test program. Claims of President Trump about the F-47: Below are some of President Trump's claims about the F-47: "Equipped with state of the art stealth technologies" "Unprecedented power", "It's speed over [Mach] 2" High quality maneuveribility Export versions possible, if toned down "10 percent" Read the latest Boeing news here. Below is a photo from the announcement: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth then followed up with the assertion that the F-47 announcement means to America's allies that America "isn't going anywhere".
Hegseth then said: "Mr. President, this is a gift to my kids and your kids, to my grand kids and your grand kids. This is a historic investment in the American military, in the American industrial base, in American industry that will help revive the warrior ethos.
.." Secretary Hegseth then made some false allegations about how the Biden Administration handled this program, including a pause.
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