Boeing-Saab T-7 Red Hawk

The Boeing-Saab T-7 Red Hawk, initially known as the Boeing T-X and later the Boeing-Saab T-X, is an American-Swedish transonic advanced jet trainer produced by Boeing with Saab. In September 2018 the US Air Force selected it for the T-X programme to replace the Northrop T-38 Talon as its advanced jet trainer, under a programme costing up to 9.2 billion dollars to buy 351 aircraft, 46 simulators and training support, with options for up to 475 aircraft. Boeing teamed with Saab to compete, and on 13 September 2016 the team unveiled prototypes of a single-engine trainer with a twin tail, tandem seating and retractable tricycle landing gear, powered by a General Electric F404 afterburning turbofan. The first T-X flew on 20 December 2016. In September 2019 the Air Force named it the T-7A Red Hawk in tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen and the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, and Saab announced a US factory in West Lafayette, Indiana.