Interesting, Boeing won the USAF's F-47 NGAD and now whatever this.

TWZ

Boeing Wins F/A-XX Next Generation Navy Stealth Fighter C...

F/A-XX has been a very highly anticipated contract award, especially after the Pentagon previously tried to freeze the program.

I'm sure they will both arrive in a timely fashion...Boeing is known for that.

F-47 is MUCH farther along...F/A-XX....not so much.

I wonder how much overlap/commonality the two airplanes will have. I'm sure that would be a selling point.

STL is about to get packed with fighter production though since Boeing will be making the F-15EX, T-7 (finally assembly), MQ-25 (over a KBLV), and F-47. Looks like the F/A-18 line will convert to the F/A-XX

18 hours ago, Inertia17 said:

I'm sure they will both arrive in a timely fashion...Boeing is known for that.

with doors that will absolutely, definitely, not spontaneously detach...

On 9/30/2026 at 10:10 AM, StoleIt said:

I wonder how much overlap/commonality the two airplanes will have. I'm sure that would be a selling point.

Surely having one company make similar combat aircraft for the sister services will boost efficiency right.. right??

It worked with the Phantom

On 10/4/2026 at 7:22 PM, RegularJoe said:

It worked with the Phantom

You know.. you're not wrong I need a longer memory. Although I'd argue it's not worked more times than it has. Also our acquisitions process is exponentially more f*ed today than it was at the time they were building F-4s, but that's more of an indictment of all programs not just joint ones