The United States is committed to its sixth-generation warplane, the Boeing F-47, and recent photos over Area 51 show what ...

Why the F-47 skipped the X and Y phases, and what its designation reveals about America's secret sixth-generation fighter.

Boeing has secured the EMD contract to advance the development of its F-47 design for the NGAD program. Here is a summary of the key details released so far. After months of uncertainty, Boeing was ...

Most sixth-gen fighter concepts have been tailless deltas, and China is pursuing that planform, but Boeing's F-47 went a very ...

The U.S. Air Force has been making decisions about what future jet fighters will look like. The contest between Boeing and Lockheed to design and build the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) ...

Mystery aircraft over Area 51 shows Boeing F-47 sixth-generation fighter design features in thermal footage, potentially revealing classified NGAD demonstrator.

U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff General David Allvin announced on Sept. 22, 2025 that Boeing had begun the manufacturing process for the first production F-47, with a goal of seeing it airborne by 2028.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—The F-47 is expected to make its first flight in 2028, the Air Force’s top officer said Monday—advancing the timeline by a year. Officials had previously said the sixth-gen combat ...

The jury is still out on whether the NGAD contract should have been awarded, former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall argues in this op-ed. (Air Force) On March 21, President Donald Trump announced ...

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Although the United States has released few details about the F-47, it cannot afford to take its time developing the fighter—a point that Allvin made clear in his keynote address. In his keynote ...

It will soon be a year since American president Donald Trump announced the official birth of the country’s and the world’s first-ever sixth-generation combat aircraft, the Boeing F-47, and not much ...