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'Most lethal aircraft ever': Trump announces new F-47 fighter jet

The Air Force is moving forward with the first sixth-generation fighter jet, President Donald Trump announced Friday.

“It’s something the likes of which nobody has seen before, in terms of all of the attributes of a fighter jet. There’s never been anything even close to it, from speed to maneuverability to what it can have to payload,” Trump said. “And this has been in the works for a long period of time.”

Trump said after a rigorous competition between top aerospace companies, Boeing was awarded the contract. An experimental version of the plane has been secretly test-flying for almost five years, he said.

“But this plane has produced numbers that nobody’s ever seen before,” he said. “The F-47 will be the most advanced, most capable, most lethal aircraft ever built.”

The jet has state-of-the-art stealth technology, the president said, making it “virtually unseeable.”

“America’s enemies will never see it coming,” Trump said.

He announced that a new fleet of the sixth-generation jets will be built over the next couple of years.

“This contract also represents a historic investment in our defense industrial base, helping to keep America at the cutting edge of aerospace and technology,” the president said. “Our allies are calling constantly. They want to buy them also, and to certain allies, we’ll be