SIMPLE FLYING · DEFENSE
5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT BOEING'S $20 BILLION US NAVY NEXT-GENERATION FIGHTER CONTRACT...
Despite chronic delivery problems in its defense division, Boeing was officially awarded the contract for the US Navy's first sixth-generation fighter, the F/A-XX.
SCOTT: A budget that jumps from pocket change to real money means the Navy fighter is not dead — it means someone on the Hill got scared of a capability gap. Watch the engine and the carrier fit, not the artist’s rendering.