--- title: "Trump Says Boeing Will Build a New Fighter Jet to Celebrate His Presidency: the “F-47”" description: "Despite all Boeing's problems, Donald Trump is now boasting about the manufacturer building the military a new fighter jet." date: "2025-03-23" modified: "2025-03-23" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/trump-boeing-f47" categories: - "Advanced Transport" - "Boeing" - "Space" tags: - "anduril" - "boeing" - "donald trump" - "fighter jets" --- # Trump Says Boeing Will Build a New Fighter Jet to Celebrate His Presidency: the “F-47” ![Despite all Boeing's problems, Donald Trump is now boasting about the manufacturer building the military a new fighter jet.]() *\Image: Anna Moneymaker via Getty / Futurism\* Despite all the problems Boeing has had with its planes and spacecraft, president Donald Trump is now boasting about the manufacturer building the military a new fighter jet — and naming it, seemingly, after him. "I’m thrilled to announce that at my direction the United States Air Force is moving forward with the world’s first sixth-generation fighter jet," the president said during an Oval Office presser, per *Fox News*. "Nothing in the world comes even close to it, and it’ll be called the 'F-47,' the generals picked that title." [Sure, Jan](). As [*Axios* reported](), Trump added that it was a "beautiful number," suggesting that maybe "the generals" didn't pick the name after all. In another [excerpt from the same press huddle](), Trump claimed that the new fighter jet will be "equipped with state-of-the-art stealth technology — it is virtually unseeable." It's unclear what he means by that, since there's little to suggest that our military or any other has the capability to create invisible planes — unless, of course, all those UFO whistleblowers are right and the military has [reverse-engineered alien tech after all](). https://www.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1903108942059733434 More likely, the new F-47 — which, notably, was also the name of a redesigned World War II-era high-altitude bomber built by Republic Aviation that had originally been called the P-47, and was also known as the "[Thunderbolt]()" — is equipped with technology that makes it "invisible" to traditional radar, which was invented in the 1970s for [Lockheed's F-117 Nighthawk]() stealth fighter. In its reporting on the newly announced fighter jet, [*Axios* added]() that the Air Force will also be collaborating with [defense contractor Anduril](), which was founded by Palmer Luckey, the Oculus VR headset guy who counts Elon Musk as a [maybe-friend and regular texting buddy](). For all the accolades from the president, who called the forthcoming fighter jet "the most advanced, most capable, most lethal aircraft ever built," there was seemingly no official reference to Boeing's massive [headline-grabbing issues]() over the past 18 months. Notably left out was any mention of the manufacturer's Starliner spacecraft, which was at the center of Trump's recent [criticisms of his predecessor](), because it was [so janky]() that the astronauts who flew up to the International Space Station on it couldn't return with it without [risking a fiery death](). Though we don't have any pricetags or timelines for the F-47, *Axios* notes that the Air Force's Next Generation Air Dominance program, which is behind the new jet, has [been extremely costly](). So it sounds like we taxpayers will be footing a bill worth untold figures for a fighter jet vanity project that may or may not ever get finished — or even work at all. **More on vanity projects:** [*Veterans Furious at Elon Musk*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()