Boeing Will Make The Next US Fighter Jet, To Be Designated F-47 (www.theguardian.com)

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Boeing has been awarded the contract for the NGAD program, and will produce the next generation of fighter jets used by the United States. The aircraft is said to be the first 6th generation fighter, said to employ novel technologies such as AI assistance. It will be part of a new "family of systems" that will include unmanned "loyal wingman" fighter aircraft . The designation F-47 appears to pay homage to Donald Trump, the 47th president.

The Wall Street Journal says that the price tag per aircraft will be "several hundred million each", for reference, the final cost per F-35 is around $80 million.

This feels like a story from The Onion ngl.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

OK, Melina, you're laying it on a little thick with this /c/fakenews post --

Oh fuck

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For reference, the final cost per F-35 is around $80 million.

The F-35 project cost is in the trillions. Due to the way the money is spent and the way it's highly protected by pols - it's been one cost overrun after another. The current cost estimate is something like 400% of what the original estimate was.

The Wall Street Journal says that the price tag per aircraft will be "several hundred million each",

Ah, I get it. Cost overrun. Cost overrun. Cost overrun. Cost overrun. Cost overrun. Cost overrun. Etc. It'll be the world's first billion dollar fighter jet!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Have you noticed that a BILLION dollars is the new million? I mean, just the way they talk about these multibillion dollar boondoggles. My phone just autocorrected "multibillion" to "multimillion". The world hasn't caught up to these consolidations of cash hoards, but the media has accidentally given away the game. Even the Democrats tried to downplay how much a billion dollars is after pissing away a billion and a half within six months with a losing campaign.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Even the Democrats tried to downplay how much a billion dollars is after pissing away a billion and a half within six months with a losing campaign.

$1,000,000,000 is a lot of money to piss away in such a short time. One of Kamala's friends got hundreds of thousands for consulting or whatever.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It'll be the world's first billion dollar jet!

Average cost of a B-2 I think is around $2.13 billion.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

yes-honey-left healthcare pls

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

No.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

amerikkka jagoff

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

trump-drenched "Yeah, we went with Boeing. A lot of people, not happy with Boeing. A lot of bad stories about Boeing. But we're going with Boeing! I figure now we're trying to kill people, so who better than Boeing?"

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Boeing

antelope-popcorn

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Every civilian it kills will be turned into an NFT

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Critical support to Boeing in their mission to hobble the force projection abilities of the United States

The designation F-47 appears to pay homage to Donald Trump, the 47th president.

jokerfied

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Boeing Will Make The Next US Fighter Jet

sicko-yes

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Lmao the AI grift is moving into the military industrial sector.

This is the dumbest timeline.

appears to pay homage to Donald Trump, the 47th president

Kinda appropriate ngl. Name it after a dumbass who loves McDonalds, real estate, and telling people what to do. Ur-American shit.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It's so weird that an empire hell bent on violent supremacy just hands the R&D over to proven losers who will undoubtedly make a shoddy product that will make the US empire the laughingstock of the "superpowers".

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The nazis did the same thing during WWII. Tiger tanks were several magnitudes more expensive in both labor hours, cash, and materials, yet would get 1-shot almost a kilometer out by T-35s and Shermans, while their own shots bounced off a point blank ranges.

Helped Germany go from being one of the most powerful countries in the world to the 5th. most powerful in Berlin.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It's really funny how Western media Nazi washed the thing so much

Whenever a Tiger is encountered in American film, it's treated like it's Metal Gear, but it was an over-engineered, under-armored, unreliable hunk of junk

Also, somewhat related, I found this caption of a picture of a Tiger amusing

Tiger I that knocked out the first M26 Pershing in combat. It then backed into a pile of rubble and became stuck, leading to the crew abandoning it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah it's the Cybertruck of tanks. I think some if it is survivorship bias. Shermans were designed to protect the crew because the US had unlimited resources. What the US couldn't replace was experience. Meanwhile, Tiger crews were all killed, so there weren't a bunch of veterans writing books about it. It doesn't help Germans made up all kinds of excuses for why they lost the war, such as ignoring Germany's inferior manufacturing and claiming nonsense like Russian human wave attacks.

My favorite bit is how Tigers had very small operation ranges. If a tank was driven too far, the transmission would give out (part of why a bunch were abandoned in North Africa). So they had to use trains to take them into the field. Tank commanders preferred setting up ambushes, rather than using tanks for the thing tanks were meant to do (attacking fortified positions), making Tigers just glorified bunkers. There were soviet tanks, on the other hand, that drove from factories in Stalingrad all the way to Berlin.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Profits before product efficiency. Truly the American military represents the very core of America.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

The f-35 hasn't even seen combat, has it?

Last I heard the fuckin things were still falling out of the sky

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

F-35s as a type have yet to down any manned aircraft but they have been used to take out drones and do ground attack roles. IIRC they were used against lebanon last year and they were what the Israelis used to retaliate against Iran after operation True Promise II.

Fun Fact: Currently the F-22 type has one recorded air to air victory. It was achieved in 2022 against one of those spy balloons everyone was freaking out about. The F-22 is set to retire and be replaced by what is now known as the F-47.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Fun Fact: Currently the F-22 type has one recorded air to air victory. It was achieved in 2022 against one of those spy balloons everyone was freaking out about. The F-22 is set to retire and be replaced by what is now known as the F-47.

And it didn't even flex on the balloon by taking it out with it's guns, it shot a heat seeker from 50 miles away like a betazoid coward.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It also MISSED the balloon with an air to air missile lol

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