The F-47 will likely never number more than a few hundred aircraft, narrowing its use to contested airspace where it can benefit from its advanced stealth features. The Next Generation Air Dominance ...

Boeing has initiated the construction of the F-47, the world’s inaugural sixth-generation fighter jet, under the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program for the U.S. Air Force. This significant ...

After the U.S. Air Force selected the F-47, DARPA disclosed that Boeing and Lockheed Martin each built a demonstrator aircraft for NGAD, which first flew in 2019 and 2022. In another bit of ...

The NGAD concept accelerated in the late 2010s, driven by concerns that the F-22 fleet was too small—with fewer than 200 airframes complete—and that the F-35, more of a digital node than a dogfighter, ...