2025-03-22
12 分钟Boeing wins a contract to make what might be the most expensive fighter jet in history.
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It's Friday, March 21st.
I'm Alex Sosalev for the Wall Street Journal.
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Boeing has been selected to build what may turn out to be the most expensive fighter in history,
a sophisticated jet the Air Force believes is vital to deter China's military in the decades ahead.
President Trump announced the new program at the White house today.
The F47 will be the most advanced, most capable, most lethal aircraft ever built.
An experimental version of the plane has secretly been flying for almost five years.
And we're confident that it massively overpowers the capabilities of any other nation.
There's no other nation.
We know every other plane.