Wall Street Journal Article archive.ph link
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.
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.
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!
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.
$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.
Average cost of a B-2 I think is around $2.13 billion.