Donald Trump on Friday awarded a multibillion-dollar contract to build the next-generation US stealth fighter jet to American aerospace giant Boeing.
“After a rigorous and thorough competition between some of America’s top aerospace companies, the Air Force is going to be awarding the contract for the next-generation air dominance platform to Boeing,” Trump said, adding it would be “the most advanced, most capable, most lethal aircraft ever built”.
The fighter jet will replace the F-22 Raptor, a stealth fighter deployed in Syria and Iraq from 2014, and will be known as the F-47, Trump said as he made the announcement in the Oval Office alongside defence secretary Pete Hegseth.