LONDON — Although it has been years since Boeing was selected to create an entirely new fighter jet for the Air Force, the head of the company’s defense unit said the company shouldn’t be underestimated.
“Fighters are an important business for the Boeing Company,” Ted Colbert, chief executive officer of Boeing Defense, Space and Security, told reporters during a roundtable discussion in London July 17. “We haven’t given up the fight in that space. We are continuing to invest in it.”
The only new fighters Boeing is now producing for the Air Force are the F-15EX, an upgraded and modernized
