Breaking: Boeing wins the US Air Force Next Generation Air Dominance fighter contract

[Han Patriot]

WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - The Pentagon is set to announce its decision on a next-generation fighter jet contract initially worth more than $20 billion as soon as Friday, despite earlier concerns about budget constraints and shifting priorities, sources briefed on the plan said.

The Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program will replace Lockheed Martin's (LMT.N)F-22 Raptor with a fighter built to battle alongside drones.

Lockheed and Boeing (BA.N) are competing head to head for the winner-take-all engineering and manufacturing development phase contract worth more than $20 billion.
An Air Force spokesperson and Boeing and Lockheed representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The winner of the high-stakes contest will receive hundreds of billions of dollars in orders over the contract's lifetime, underpinning their businesses for decades.

NGAD was conceived as a "family of systems" centered around a sixth-generation fighter jet that aims to provide the United States with advanced air dominance capabilities to counter near-peer adversaries like China and Russia.

Under President Donald Trump's administration, which took office in January, the program has moved forward after a period of uncertainty that cast doubt on the future of the next-generation fighter jet.

Last year, the program faced potential delays or scaling back due to budget pressures and cost overruns in other Air Force programs. There were also discussions about reconsidering fundamental design elements or shifting resources to unmanned drone programs.

The anticipated announcement signals designs that were finalized last year will be chosen for NGAD.

Boeing has suffered headwinds for both its commercial and defense businesses. A win would be a shot in the arm for its St. Louis, Missouri, fighter jet production businesses, while a loss would add to Boeing's woes.

Lockheed was recently eliminated from the competition to build the Navy's next-generation carrier-based stealth fighter. If it loses the NGAD contract, it will likely double down on its F-35 fighter jet program and international sales of its F-16 jets.

BOEING? RIP

 

[Han Patriot]

China has the same money and technology, but we also have an efficient government, the US doesn't have that.

Why do I say that? Just look at this comparison.

It cost 3.4 billion CNY ($470 million dollars) to build.

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It cost 320 million dollars to build, and it's only good for seven days.

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TOp notch MADE IN THE USA quality.

 

[liuzhengdong]

Because your intention is clear to TROLL, and don't want to discuss the topic in POSITIVE and LOGICAL WAY

Excuse me, which of my words is a joke? ? Have you lost the Pakistani spirit by becoming an American?

 

[NGAD IS THE BEST]

Excuse me, which of my words is a joke? ? Have you lost the Pakistani spirit by becoming an American?

Saying that F-47 is a ripoff of J20 is clearly showing that you're an immature person, probably a 2 year old toddler

 

[liuzhengdong]

Saying that F-47 is a ripoff of J20 is clearly showing that you're an immature person, probably a 2 year old toddler

I said: The F47 is more like a copy of the J-20 without the tail.

You think like a three-year-old.

 

[lightning f57]

Come on guys focus on topic. There is too much baiting going on, very little is known of US 6th gen, a little more on Chinese 6th gen due to released photos/videos. But thats about it, we dont know any technical aspects in reality and some of you are debating like your working on the programs.

 

[NGAD IS THE BEST]

I said: The F47 is more like a copy of the J-20 without the tail.

You think like a three-year-old.

Do you know what is the meaning of COPY?

 

[NGAD IS THE BEST]

Come on guys focus on topic. There is too much baiting going on, very little is known of US 6th gen, a little more on Chinese 6th gen due to released photos/videos. But thats about it, we dont know any technical aspects in reality and some of you are debating like your working on the programs.

There's minimal to none technical information about F-47, so far we have only front section image of F-47 during the Whitehouse presentation

 

[Beijingwalker]

It all boils down to the cost, many argue that Trump released this news at this moment to counter China and save face, China has two 6th gen jets are in active open testing flights, US has to do something to ease this embarrassment.
Trump hastily chose one condidate in spite of cost concerns only shows how desperate he is, 3 times of the cost of F-22 makes this program hardly viable in the future.

 

[Ali_Baba]

It all boils down to the cost, many argue that Trump released this news at this moment to counter China and save face, China has two 6th gen jets are in active open testing flights, US has to do something to ease this embarrassment.
Trump hastily chose one condidate in spite of cost concerns only shows how desperate he is, 3 times of the cost of F-22 makes this program hardly viable in the future.

It does feel like China bumped USA into a decision that they did not want to make, as the talk was of cancelling NGAD and starting again.

 

[MH.Yang]

It all boils down to the cost, many argue that Trump released this news at this moment to counter China and save face, China has two 6th gen jets are in active open testing flights, US has to do something to ease this embarrassment.
Trump hastily chose one condidate in spite of cost concerns only shows how desperate he is, 3 times of the cost of F-22 makes this program hardly viable in the future.

Even worse, the U.S. is now starting to follow the rhythm set by China.

The fact that China chose this time period to let the 6G fighter “leak” is clearly intentional. It would be unwise for the US, as a financial country, to engage in an arms race with an industrialized country like China.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

No, I'm not yommie, he hate USA and love Russian military equipment, and he claim to be Chinese, I'm a neutral kind of a guy

Yet he lives in Canada which I find fascinating.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

I'm US citizen now, and was the Pakistani citizen in Past, and don't compare ATF program to this project, lot have since early 80s to 2020 lol

Congrats on your becoming a citizen.

As much as the world likes to bash us, it's odd that so many still want to come here through any means possible.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

I said: The F47 is more like a copy of the J-20 without the tail.

You think like a three-year-old.

With the J-20 being a rip-off of American designs along with others.

 

[F-22Raptor]

More stealth and much longer range