{"id":14923,"date":"2025-03-23T21:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T02:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=14923"},"modified":"2025-04-02T23:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T04:01:33","slug":"u-s-air-force-selects-boeing-for-next-generation-air-dominance-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=14923","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Air Force selects Boeing for Next-Generation Air Dominance Fighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">Story by Boeing, image by Wikipedia<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">Arlington, Virginia<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">March 21<\/span>, 2025, <\/span>PRNewswire<\/strong> &#8211; The U.S. Air Force announced Boeing has been awarded a contract to design, build and deliver its next-generation fighter aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) Platform will usher in a new generation of <span class=\"xn-location\">United States<\/span> fighter jets that brings leap-ahead capability in range, survivability, lethality and adaptability. The NGAD Platform is the central node in the NGAD Family of Systems.<\/p>\n<p>For nearly a century, Boeing has produced many of the most advanced combat aircraft for military customers around the globe including the P-51 Mustang, F-4 Phantom, F-15 Eagle, F\/A-18 Hornet and EA-18G Growler, among others. The NGAD selection builds on Boeing&#8217;s fighter legacy and establishes a new global standard for 6th generation capability.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"F-47 fighter jet will be &#039;generational leap of capability&#039;: Retired Air Force general | The Hill\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/goFJEnRUfL4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story by Boeing, image by Wikipedia Arlington, Virginia, March 21, 2025, PRNewswire &#8211; The U.S. Air Force announced Boeing has been awarded a contract to design, build and deliver its next-generation fighter aircraft. Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) Platform will usher in a new generation of United States fighter jets that brings leap-ahead capability in range, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9316,1836,4957,5676],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-news","category-defense-news","category-global-politics","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14924,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14923\/revisions\/14924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}