Boeing's selection leverages shared technology, production investments, and existing carrier-based and drone capabilities.

The F-22 Raptor is, by almost any measure, the most capable air superiority fighter ever built. Its combination of low-observable stealth, supercruise capability, and fused avionics set it apart from ...

The skies above future battlefields will look nothing like the dogfights of the 20th century — or even the precision strikes ...

The Air Force is pursuing its Next-Generation Air Dominance program as the Navy works to field its adjacent F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter series. While the US Air Force and Navy currently fly some ...

President Donald Trump announced that Boeing (BA) is the winner of the long-awaited NGAD contract. Earlier this year, there had been turmoil as China fielded its sixth-generation fighter jet, while ...

Boeingn has won the U.S. Navy's F/A-XX competition for the sixth-generation carrier-based fighter, with a contract valued at ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the first example of Boeing's F-47 sixth-generation stealth fighter for the U.S. Air Force now in production, a company ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

In March of 2025, the U.S. Air Force announced that it had selected the contractor for its sixth-generation stealth fighter program: not Lockheed Martin, which made the F-22 and still makes the F-35, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Friday that Boeing will build the Air Force’s future fighter jet, which the Pentagon says will have stealth and penetration capabilities that far ...