The F-47 won’t look anything like the images shown by President Trump
April 29, 2025
All those who sought to analyse the F-47 from the artist’s renderings released in the wake of President Trump’s Oval Office source selection announcement should perhaps take a step back.
There is growing evidence that the released images were deliberately distorted by Boeing, and then further altered by the Air Force. The Air Force quite deliberately didn’t “give anything away in those pictures.”
Air and Space Forces Magazine quoted a spokesman as saying: “You’ll have to be patient” to see what it really looks like,” adding “Is there a resemblance? Maybe.” The magazine quoted a ‘former senior Pentagon official’ as asking “Why would you assume that’s the actual design?”
Intriguingly, in the latest edition of the Air Power Podcast (see: https://defaeroreport.com/2025/03/27/defense-aerospace-air-power-podcast-mar-27-25-season-3-e11-the-secret-history/) Former Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall described the F-47 as having an “aircraft configuration itself [that] is going to be [a] pretty direct descendant of F-22.”
This may mean that the F-47 may bear more resemblance to the entirely notional concepts briefly seen in a recent US Air Force recruitment video!
