The US Air force is making YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A unmanned jets that will fly with the F-47 sixth generation fighter. There will ...

The future of aerial combat in the military looks like it could be increasingly unmanned. Wingman drones are a step in that ...

A strike is looming for Boeing’s F-47 fighter jet production in St. Louis, as more than 3,200 union workers, represented by ...

Despite what appears to be an imminent strike vote by 3,200 machinists at its St. Louis defense plants, Boeing’s leadership ...

Boeing won the $20 billion contract to develop the US Air Force's sixth-gen stealth fighter, the F-47. The designation is a nod to the P-47 fighter, the Air Force's founding year, and the 47th ...

Boeing won the $20 billion contract to develop the US Air Force's sixth-gen stealth fighter, the F-47. The designation is a nod to the P-47 fighter, the Air Force's founding year, and the 47th ...

U.S. Air Force’s 6th-gen fighter NGAD In January, the Air Force announced contract modifications for both firms, increasing the ceiling for the prototype phase of the NGAP contracts to $3.5 ...

Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman are said to be the topmost contenders for building the NGAD. Skunk Works – a unit of Lockheed – had also released designs for the next-gen fighter in the past.

The Air Force cannot even guarantee it will be able to mass-produce the NGAD systems in a useful timeline. Even now, the U.S. defense industrial base is barely able to keep up with demand.

Since NGAD is being designed to replace the service’s aging F-22 Raptor platform, the upcoming “family of systems” must be absolutely dominant when introduced.

Robert Wall: Welcome to this emergency Check 6 podcast, “Scramble the F-47” edition, where we discuss the White House announcement that Boeing will build the U.S. Air Force's Next Generation ...

The F-47 will form part of a new NGAD ‘family of systems’ which also includes collaborative combat aircraft and cutting-edge sensors, weaponry and other technology that will allow it to ...