Boeing’s F-47 — the world’s first sixth-generation fighter, awarded a $20 billion contract on March 21, 2025 — replaces the F-22 Raptor with a 1,000-nautical-mile combat radius, all-aspect broadband multi-spectral stealth, and an adaptive cycle engine capable of Mach 2 combat thrust and 30% greater range efficiency. The Air Force plans to field over 1,000 Collaborative Combat Aircraft drone wingmen alongside it — the Anduril YFQ-44A Fury now in serial production at Arsenal-1 in Ohio, the General Atomics YFQ-42A Dark Merlin back in flight testing after a six-week grounding, and Shield AI’s X-BAT VTOL autonomous combat drone with a 2,000nm range and no runway required at $27M per unit. A former F-15E combat pilot and Thunderbird breaks down what the F-47 strike package would have done to Iran’s Bavar-373 air defense network during Operation Epic Fury, how the system defeats China’s A2AD ar

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