The Air Force is moving forward with the first sixth-generation fighter jet, President Donald Trump announced Friday.
“It’s something the likes of which nobody has seen before, in terms of all of the attributes of a fighter jet. There’s never been anything even close to it, from speed to maneuverability to what it can have to payload,” Trump said. “And this has been in the works for a long period of time.”
Trump said after a rigorous competition between top aerospace companies, Boeing was awarded the contract. An experimental version of the plane has been secretly test-flying for almost five years, he said.
“But this plane has produced numbers that nobody’s ever seen before,” he said. “The F-47 will be the most advanced, most capable, most lethal aircraft ever built.”
The jet has state-of-the-art stealth technology, the president said, making…
