Pentagon Wants to Delay Navy’s Next-Gen Fighter to Focus on F-47

The Pentagon wants to give priority to the Air Force’s F-47 stealth fighter over Navy plans to develop its own next-generation jet, arguing that pursuing the two programs at the same time could delay them both.

The Defense Department asked Congress to shift $500 million to the F-47, which was awarded to Boeing Co. in March, from the “accelerated development” of a to-be-contracted Navy stealth fighter. The House Armed Services Committee had added the money to the defense section of President Donald Trump’s signature tax-cut bill.

A rendering of Air Force’s sixth-generation fighter, the F-47.

Source: US Air Force

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