Today, it has been revealed that Boeing has won its bid to provide the United States Air Force with its next jet fighter. As in recent days, as the purchase of the last fighter aircraft design, the Department of Defense faced a selection between the Boeing or Lock Head in the next Generation Air Domino Domino Program contract, which will replace the Lockheed F22 Ripter at some point in the 2030s.
The NGAD is rarely known, which the Air Force has in fact interpreted as a “family of systems”, because the purpose of being the owner of the heavens needs more than just a fancy aircraft. This program has been going on for a decade, and has been designed by a prototype Air Force Filled in 2020 for the first timeBreak the record (though recorded and how much was not revealed).
The last summer, Pentagon stopped the program As he re -evaluated whether the NGAD would still meet its needs and whether he could bear the payment of the aircraft as well as a new bomber, a new initial warning aircraft, a new trainer, and a new ICBM, at the same time. But at the end of December, He concluded that, yesAn alternative to a staff for F-22 was in the national interest.
Although no photo has been made public at that time, Frank Candel, secretary of the then air force, said in 2024 that “this is a place of F22. You can give some indications from it.”
This decision is the good news for the Boeing plant in St. Louis, which is scheduled for the F/A -18 Super Hornet preparation in 2027. Boeing lost his last bid to make a fighter jet when his X -32 joint strike fighter lost his X -35 in the Joint Strike Fighter competition in 2001.
A separate attempt to contract for the NGAD engine, called the next generation called adaptation propation, is underway between Pert and Whitney and GE Aerospace, aimed at developing a “drone wing” in the works between ordinary atomics and Andorel.