Boeing Won a $20,000,000,000 Contract for the F-47 NGAD — 185 Aircraft Designed to Replace the F-22 and Outclass China’s J-20

Boeing Won a $20,000,000,000 Contract for the F-47 NGAD — 185 Aircraft Designed to Replace the F-22 and Outclass China’s J-20

In March 2025, President Donald Trump and U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin announced that Boeing had won a $20 billion contract to build the F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) sixth-generation fighter — the first U.S. sixth-generation crewed combat aircraft and the eventual replacement for the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor. The Air Force plans to acquire at least 185 F-47s at an estimated $300 million per aircraft, each capab…