Trump Announces F-47, the Air Force’s New Sixth-Gen Fighter Built by Boeing

[TheCaber]

F-47 announcment

[davemchine]

Link didn't work for me but this one did https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-w...act-2025-3 . It feels like we "just" got the F-35! Progress moves on but with Boeing building it we will have time to get used to the idea.

[GGD]

How will Canada, Greenland and Panama respond?

[special]

is 47 intentional or just a coincidence?

They should have called it T-47, Turd 47

[TheCaber]

Here's a link to video of the announcement of capabilities "like nobody's ever seen before"

[gabester]

This is what you may have previously known as a T-47 - the star wars snowspeeder from Hoth.



Unfortunately after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing conflict there it seems obvious that expensive high end airpower is not terribly effective when compared to numerous inexpensive drones.

You can take down multimillion dollar air superiority fighter with a drone costing just a few thousand dollars, and they're more effective for many of the ground support roles as well. If a drone gets taken out, the pilot (if there is one at all and it's not autonomously guided) lives on and can launch another so long as their stocked in the supply room and adequate to the mission.

[timg]

F-47 is fine with me ... as far as I'm concerned it would expand out to F***-47

[cbelt3]

So how much did Boeing pay him for the contract ? I mean, it’s legal to bribe now.

[Lux Interior]

Will it be literally invisible, like he thinks the F-35 is?

[vision63]

cbelt3 wrote:
So how much did Boeing pay him for the contract ? I mean, it’s legal to bribe now.

They invested a million on Trump's inauguration. Who knows beyond that.