Trump announces Boeing wins sixth-generation aircraft contract for F-47

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President Donald Trump announced Friday that the Air Force is “moving forward” with the plan to acquire the “world’s first sixth-generation fighter jet,” named the F-47.

Trump said Boeing beat out Lockheed Martin for the multibillion-dollar contract to build the next-generation fighting aircraft in what was a winner-take-all approach that granted the winner hundreds of billions of dollars in the long run.

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