An Air Force General Just Posted New Details About the F-47 NGAD
Story by Stavros Atlamazoglou • 21h
The Air Force graph revealed that the plane would have a top speed of approximately Mach 2+, or around 1,550 miles per hour, similar to the F-22 Raptor.
In March, President Donald Trump revealed with great fanfare the Air Force’s next stealth fighter jet. The Boeing F-47— is set to become the first 6th-generation stealth fighter jet to ever take to the skies.
Now, in a recent post on X (formerly Twitter), U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff General David Allvin revealed some interesting information about the upcoming jet.
The Air Force Just Revealed the NGAD’s Top Speed
The most senior officer in the Air Force posted a graphic about the trajectory of U.S. fighter jets. The visual graph started from 4th-generation aircraft, like the F-15E/EX Strike Eagle/Eagle II and F-16 Fighting Falcon, moved to 5th-generation stealth fighter jets, like the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II, before concluding with the upcoming sixth-generation F-47.
With regard to the F-47, the Air Force graph revealed that the plane would have a top speed of approximately Mach 2+, or around 1,550 miles per hour, similar to the F-22 Raptor. The Air Force plans to purchase approximately 185 F-47s—in order to replace, on a one-to-one ratio, the existing F-22 fleet and assume their air dominance mission set. As far as combat radius, the mileage a fighter jet can cover under combat conditions, the sixth-generation stealth fighter jet will have a combat range of over 1,000 nautical miles, or almost 1,200 miles.
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