U.S. Military Just Flexed The Most Dangerous Aircraft Ever Built The F-47

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]It's May 29th, 2026. Welcome to the video, everybody. Day 90 of the conflict with the US and Iran. For the last 90 days, the United States Air Force, United States Navy, Marines has been using multiple jets, multiple platforms to take on Iran. F-35s, F-15E, F-18s, F-16s, A-10s, B2s. The most advanced manned aircraft in the Persian Gulf theater right now are fifth generation and fourth generation platforms that pretty much all were designed in the '90s. So, the platforms are extraordinary. Obviously, I flew the F-15E. Incredible aircraft. See, I needed to drop the fact that I was a pilot. I feel a little bit better now.

[00:00:40]But what is coming is the F47. Remember, Boeing was awarded the $20 billion contract for the world's first sixth generation fighter on March 21st of last year. President Trump announced it personally. Air Force Chief of Staff was there talking about the advanced, lethal, and adaptable sixth generation variant of this aircraft that's going to be the most advanced fighter ever built.

[00:01:06]And at this point, this jet could shape the future of warfare, putting all the different enemies on the globe on notice, specifically Iran. I mean, this thing could have ended the Iran conflict in probably 3 days with more intelligence, more ISR, striking down different assets in the straight of Hormuz. Lots of different adaptations that this thing could have been doing.

[00:01:28]And we know that now it's not just a press release. This is actually happening with the announcement from Secretary of War Pete Hegsth about the F-47 being a massive priority to team up with these advanced drones in this $1.5 trillion budget. I mean, this thing's coming. So, let's actually go to the video of Pete Hexth and see what he said about the F-47 and we'll try to kind of pull some strings and read between the lines. Hey everybody, here we are on X.

[00:01:54]Let's have a listen to what Secretary of War Pete Heget said specifically about that beautiful F-47. Here we go.

[00:02:01]>> We're making a record-breaking investment in drones, lethal ones, to dominate the battlefield of today and tomorrow.

[00:02:08]>> So, it likely means firsterson view drones, those small little quadcopters, all the way from that to the Lucas drone, which the Marines are operating right now. Basically, that clone which was the big middle finger to Iran. Okay, Iran, you're going to fly these little doritoshaped drones at us. Cool. We're going to redesign them, put shield AI autonomy in them, so way better brains than what Iran has, and then fire those back at Iran. I would love to see the combat footage of those Lucas drones being used. So, from that then all the way to the Ander Fury drone, the AI expat, and other autonomous fighter style wingmen is likely what we're going to see here. This allows us to unleash massive swarms of autonomous drones that will fly. And >> I love that the robot dog is in there.

[00:02:53]It's like, yep, we got these quadcopters. We've got these other advanced sea drones, underwater unmanned vehicles, and then we've got the robot dog. Got to have the robot dog >> fight right alongside our >> boom. There it is. Okay, so there is the Androll Fury. We know tons of testing has been going on on the Ander Fury. You can see the Max Afterburner, if I don't say so myself. Little shameless plug.

[00:03:15]the afterburner coming out of the back of that Andrew Fury. Just super cool for me to see this. And I got a story for you guys about finally seeing these fighter type drones. I'll share with you in a second.

[00:03:26]>> Command sixth generation fighter, the F-47.

[00:03:30]>> While our >> Oh, we got to go back a little bit. Just a little bit. Let's see that beautiful F-47. Oh, there it is. So, that is going to be such a sweet aircraft. So, some of the little hints, little tells that we're seeing here. Uh, looks like they put a center stick in there, but if I was a betting man, this thing's going to have a side stick just like the F-22 and F-35. That's the one thing I would change about the F-15. Like the F-15 EX rolling off the line don't have a center stick. It gets in the way of your screen. Literally blocks one of your main MFDs, multi-function displays right there in the center and it keeps you from seeing the battlefield sometimes.

[00:04:07]So, put that stick on the side and I'll be happy there. And then obviously there will be some sort of a sixth generation helmet. This is more of a legacy setup of an F-16 with the headsup display right here in the center.

[00:04:19]>> While our next generation bomber, the B-21.

[00:04:22]>> Oh, B-21. I feel a follow on video coming tomorrow. Stay tuned for that one. But yeah, just a little teaser here. Look at that thing. It looks like a Stingray. Just like the way that it's shaped. Obviously, little cartoon graphic design. The real thing looks even better. But their whole goal is to integrate those engines. So the actual version of the B-21 has the intakes that kind of go down and into the actual body of the aircraft like a dragon.

[00:04:45]>> We're funding advanced cyber operations and artificial >> and this is huge too of integrating AI into the actual F-47 itself is going to be massive because the guts and the brains of that and the way that it talks to those different drone wingmen. This AI section to me obviously involves a ton of different military systems. And by making the largest ever investment in the Space Force, we will lead the world in capabilities beyond our atmosphere.

[00:05:10]>> Yeah, Space Force, baby. So, Space Force to me is kind of the unsung hero in a lot of these situations, a lot of these conflicts because they're the ones using these satellites to geollocate, find targets, and then share communications data between different aircraft. It's massive to have the Space Force involved. And they've got little white gloves. I mean, the white gloves part makes me want to join Space Force alone.

[00:05:33]Maybe they even have white flight suits at this point. But I want you to walk away from this video today knowing exactly what the F47 is, what its drone wingman, the Andreal Fury, the General Atomics Dark Merlin, and Shields AI Expat. What can they do alongside this thing? And what's going to make it different from just having multiple F-22s or F-35s? Well, the IRGC's air defense network got taken down in roughly 24 hours or so. But in my opinion, I think this could have taken down a lot more a lot faster if you team up the F-47 with these advanced drones because not in a small part because of the electronic attack ability that these aircraft have when they team up together. Because we know at the beginning of this conflict, Operation Epic Fury, that thousands of tomahawk missiles were used. Up to a little over a thousand are the reports that I'm seeing. So that's actually a lot of resources if these different aircraft can team up to electronically attack different IATS integrated air defense systems in nations like Iran or even in a Taiwan Strait scenario or North Korea scenario. And then stay around for the roundup. We're going to cover a couple different things specifically some of these drones. There was actually a recent crash of one of these drones. And then we're also going to get into Iran rebuilding their air defenses. What is Iran actually doing? So we'll be covering that throughout the video. So basically at this point it's pretty clear Iran's defenses couldn't even handle the fifth generation package. So trying to hold the sixth generation package something that big is going to be a little bit too big for Iran at this point. So let's start with the jet itself because the gap between fifth and sixth generation it's not really an upgrade. It's a entire different category of warfare. So Boeing's contract for the F47 covers development of at least 185 aircraft which is massive. That is a massive fleet of sixth generation fighters. The first operational aircraft could arrive as soon as 2028 because there's reports of this flying right now with images showing variants of the F-47 actually flying at Area 51. So, if we start with what the capability of it is, the F-47's combat radius is said to exceed a,000 nautical miles. The F-22 has a 590 mi combat radius. The F-35 has 600 miles.

[00:07:46]So, the F-47 is 69% longerlegged than either of them. And I like how they made it exactly 69% just like a good fighter pilot should do. That means that this thing can reach contested areas around Taiwan from Guam to Japan without tanker support, eliminating the vulnerability China basically spent 20 years calculating and building with its DF-26 anti-ship ballistic missiles and it surfaceto-air missile systems. So not needing a tanker means that China's missile math doesn't really apply to high-v value targets because China has always wargamed striking down high-value targets first because those tankers have to get in so close they don't even need to worry about the fighters anymore because the fighters won't have any gas.

[00:08:29]That's not the case with the F-47 and that pretty much changes everything. And I want to be precise here because fifth generation stealth and sixth generation stealth are not even in the same ballpark. The F-22 and F-35, those have low observable radar cross-sections across certain frequencies. The F-47 is designed by the Air Force as featuring all aspect broadband low observability, reduced radar and infrared signatures from every single angle, not just from the front, across the full electromagnetic spectrum. It's called multi-spectral stealth. That's why we kind of see this tailless design with no vertical stabilizers to create those radar returns, skins that can absorb and scatter those radar frequencies across different frequencies. The F-35's designers never had to account for this.

[00:09:17]And a thermal signature management system that handles the heat of a Mach 2 plus engine without lighting up any other infrared sensors. It's not just stealthier than the F-22. This is a qualitatively different signature problem for any radar operator from any adversary nation to solve. But the engine here is something I really want to highlight to you guys. The F-47 engine is genuinely exotic. Like literally, I think this engine should be dancing on a pole somewhere because there's two companies competing for the contract. Pratt and Whitney with an XA 103 and GE Aerospace with the XA102.

[00:09:53]Both are building physical prototypes right now. And both are three stream adaptive cycle engines, which has a real operational meaning. High thrust mode, maximum combat power. Maybe I should change the channel to high thrust mode.

[00:10:07]Let me know in the comments below if I should be high thrust mode at this point. Mach 2 plus in cruise mode. The third bypass stream increases fuel efficiency by 25% and range by 30% over conventional engines. the same engine that sprints like a fighter, cruises like a bomber, and it has double the cooling and electrical power capacity of any current engine, which there's one big reason why it has this beefy of an engine and interdirected energy systems because that's a design requirement in my mind that you would only need if you were planning to put directed energy systems on the F47. Lasers on a fighter jet. Can I get a fighter jet with freaking laser beams? At this point, I think we've upped the ante from sharks with freaking laser beams. Sorry, sharks with freaking laser beams. You were cool before, but F47 with laser beams kind of has an edge on you. But here's the piece that changes everything about how the aircraft fights. The aircraft plans to acquire more than a thousand collaborative combat aircraft, drone wingmen with roughly two assigned to every F-47 at a minimum. So, this jet isn't just a fighter, it's a systems commander quarterback. And the F-47 pilot doesn't really fly into the threats. They manage a formation of autonomous aircraft that fly into the threat. While the F-47 can do pretty much whatever it wants. It can stay outside the engagement envelope of SAMs entirely if it wants to, or it can use these little drones as spoofers and as decoys. The pilot's display will likely show every drone in the formation what that drone is seeing. So targeting decisions happen at machine speed with AI integrated and then weapons can be fired by platforms that the adversary can't even track back to the manned aircraft. So the F47 can be targeting a drone into the enemy from across the battle space or way above the battle space where the enemy has no idea there's anything up there lurking. So basically the F47 pilot is the quarterback and the drones run the routes on the field. So, China is the threat that this aircraft is designed to defeat. The People's Liberation Army Air Force is flight testing two apparent sixth generation prototype competitors right now. The Changdu J36, the Shinyang J50, both featuring tailless designs and thrust vectoring. China flew something that looked sixth generation before the US announced the F-47, which generated some massive headlines, obviously. But here's what those headlines omitted.

[00:12:31]China lacks the variable cycle engine technology of the XA 103. Their WS-15 is a capable fifth generation power plant and we've seen it on some of their fifth generation jets like the J20, but it can't switch modes in flight. And what that tells me is likely the Chinese sixth generation version isn't going to be able to handle directed energy weapons. That's going to be a huge limitation. Not to mention the stealth limitation of having fifth generation engines plinkedked onto this thing just like a Lego set. They're like, "Uh, we're not really good at building these advanced engines, so we're just going to connect in a little Lego here from the J20, which is really going to hurt them in the stealth department." Oh, China, you just have a fifth generation engine.

[00:13:12]Oh, yeah. China's like, "No, it's really important. It's really strong." And we're like, "Yeah, it's not the size of the engine that matters, China. Good job. You made it to the global roundup, my friends. There's actually a crash of one of these drones, the YFQ42A crash on April 6th. That's the Dark Merlin. It went down at General Atomics Grreybut test facility in California due to an autopilot miscalculation and its flight autonomy software involving weight and center of gravity. So, as you can see, these drones aren't immune from having some sort of issues and that's why this flight testing is so important right now. But on the other side of it, Andrew's Fury drone actually launched an A120 AM RAM. So, yeah, there's a lot of advancements coming, but there will be a few hiccups on the way as this gets integrated. And then story number two, Iran's chief negotiator, Muhammad Galabah, he stated publicly that Iran is rebuilding everything in their military and that they're fully restored to their combat capability from before the war.

[00:14:11]What I do buy is they're heavily doubling down on drones like Shahed drones and their fast attack. They're probably building those things as fast as possible because they want that swarm threat and that's what we're seeing them do in the straight of horm right now.

[00:14:24]You made it to the 40 chest section. So, let's talk about why the F-47, this strategic message is being sent out right now. Everything's strategic right now. The Department of War isn't just releasing this 1.5 trillion budget for their health, including the F-47. The whole goal here is to deter adversaries, and deterrence is one of the biggest things the F-47 is going to do when these nations know, oh, they can't really compete at all with this sixth generation program. Like, Russia can't compete, China can't compete. They're going to try. They're going to put things out there that might look like they're competing, but right now the United States is in the highest evolution of innovation in aviation that I've seen in decades. So, right now, the US is resolutely saying that it's important for us to have this sixth generation F-47 and it could be unleashed at any point because it's already being tested. There's already test flights. Likely this thing will be in combat squadrons in 2028 to 2029 somewhere in there. I think we should call this thing the F-47 Giga Chat.

[00:15:20]Anybody else? Let me know what you think we should call the F47 in the comments below. My vote is the giga Chad. But thanks so much for watching, guys.

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[00:15:47]They're like, "Hello, we're here to announce that China's journey towards a sixth generation air dominance fighter is going very well. We made extraordinary progress. We have a prototype that actually flies and it has a tailless design. We don't have any engines that are really built for it yet. So, we just plinkedked on some engines from an old jet, but we're working on it. Don't worry, we have a great attitude. The Americans are building an entire drone F47 ecosystem, but we think ours is cooler just because we said so, and we hope that you agree.