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Donald Trump introduced within the oval studio with the protection secretary Pete Hegseth at his facet the launch of a brand new navy jet. “The F-47 will be the most powerful in history,” mentioned the president. Trump has introduced that the Boeing’s manufacturing of the brand new technology Super Jet was awarded the manufacturing of the manufacturing of Super Jet. The identify of the F-47 Jet is clearly a tribute to its second presidency.

The American protection secretary, Pete Hegseth, outlined the launch of the brand new Jet, the F-47 a “gift” for future generations of Americans. “Under the previous administration, we seemed like idiots”, attacked the top of the Pentagon by including that with the brand new program “we warn the allies we are there and the enemies that we are stronger”.

The aircraft is a part of the Next Generation Air Dominance (Ngad) program, the venture to ensure the USA of the sky within the new period of hyper -technological wars. And the pictures with which Trump accompanied the announcement say all of it: the F47 resembles an alien plane, with the disturbing muzzle that comes out threateningly within the clouds. The alternative of quantity 47 could be a tribute to Tycoon, forty seventh American president.

The Ngad program, they estimate specialists within the sector, is “currently the most expensive program in the Budget of Research and Development of the Air Force”, with bills foreseen within the steadiness sheet of virtually 20 billion {dollars} within the subsequent 5 years, which nonetheless might find yourself underneath the darkish of the cuts to the appropriations. The value of every single plane is anticipated between 200 and 300 million {dollars}, triple of an F-35, to offer an instance.

To have an image of what the F-47 will likely be, whose technical particulars stay secret, one should begin from the F-22 Raptor, which is taken into account the flagship of American air supremacy, each for the excessive efficiency and for the stealth abilities, that’s, having the ability to disguise avoiding the tracing of the opposing radars. The F-22 additionally has the flexibility to move many kinds of totally different weapons, from missiles to varied bombs.