What We Know About the F-47, America’s Sixth-Generation Aircraft

President Donald Trump has announced that Boeing will build the United States Air Force’s sixth-generation fighter jet. Air Force leaders will now move to produce fleets of the new aircraft, officially designated the F-47. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on March 21, Trump said an F-47 prototype had been secretly flying for the past half-decade and that the new aircraft would be the world’s most advanced. “We’re confident that it massively overpowers the capabilities of any other nation,” Trump said. “There’s never been anything even close to it from speed to maneuverability to what it can have [for] payload.”...