President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday announced that Boeing has won a $20 billion contract for the next generation of Air Force fighter jets called the F-47.

Boeing defeated defense contracting giant Lockheed Martin for the bid, and the new planes will replace Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor. The new planes will be designed to fight alongside drones, the president said.

Trump did not state how many of the fighter jets the U.S. was hoping to procure or how much they would cost individually, but he touted the plane's “state of the art stealth technologies,” and stated that it was “virtually unseeable," per The Hill.

“The F-47 will be the most advanced, most capable, most lethal aircraft ever built,” Trump told reporters. “An experimental version of the plane has secretly been flying for almost five years, and we’re confident that it massively overpowers the capabilities of any other nation.”

Hegseth touted the move as an "historic investment in the American military."

The new contract comes as Boeing faces several safety issues with its civilian aircrafts, along with a delay on its new Air Force One, the release of which could now be postponed until 2029 or beyond. 

The Air Force One program, also called VC-25B, was supposed to be delivered in December 2024.

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