Important Takeaways:

• “I’m thrilled to announce that, at my direction, the United States Air Force is moving forward with the world’s first sixth-generation fighter jet,” Trump said from the Oval Office, flanked by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
• “Nothing in the world comes even close to it, and it’ll be known as the F-47,” Trump said.
• Trump said the jet has been in the works for a long period of time, and after a rigorous and thorough competition between America’s top aerospace companies, the Air Force has awarded the contract to make the jet to Boeing, which will be known as the Next Generation Air Dominance platform.
• “The F-47 will be the most advanced, most capable, most lethal aircraft ever built,” Trump explained, adding that an experimental version of the plane has secretly been flying for almost five years.
• “We’re confident that it massively overpowers the capabilities of any other nation,” he continued. “The F-47 is equipped with state-of-the-art stealth technologies — virtually unseeable and unprecedented power.”
• Trump said the plane would fly with “many drones,” adding, “that’s something that no other plane can do.”
• The president said a new fleet of the planes will be built and “in the air” during his administration, over the “next couple of years.”
• Trump also called the contract a “historic investment in our defense industrial base, helping to keep America at the cutting edge of aerospace and technology.”

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