---
title: "Rise And Avenge The X-32 With This F-47 Inspired T-Shirt"
description: "The father of Boeing's winning Next Generation Air Dominance fighter has one message for his son."
date: "2025-04-03"
modified: "2025-04-03"
authors:
  - name: "Tyler Rogoway"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.twz.com/authors/tyler-rogoway"
url: "https://www.twz.com/air/rise-and-avenge-the-x-32-with-this-f-47-inspired-t-shirt"
categories:
  - "Air"
  - "F-47"
  - "Fighters"
  - "News & Features"
---

# Rise And Avenge The X-32 With This F-47 Inspired T-Shirt

![F-47 X-32 rise shirt](<https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/F47-T-shirt.jpg>)
*Blipshift/TWZ*

Boeing [winning the Air Force's Next Generation Air Dominance fighter](<https://www.twz.com/air/f-47-revelations-were-just-dropped-by-former-air-force-secretary>) contract may have been a bit of a surprise to some, but it set the company up to have its F-47 make [good on losing out on the Joint Strike Fighter](<https://www.twz.com/44157/test-pilot-explains-why-the-x-32-lost-to-what-became-the-f-35>) to Lockheed Martin two and a half decades ago. As a result of that very high-stakes competition, a jet that would become an aerospace cultural icon — for all the wrong reasons, and [maybe undeservingly so](<https://www.twz.com/20971/this-is-what-a-boeing-f-32-wouldve-looked-like-if-lockheed-lost-the-jsf-competition>) — would live on, often as the butt of jokes and internet memes: [Boeing's slack-jawed X-32.](<https://www.twz.com/x-32s-swan-makeover-before-and-after>)

![](<https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Boeing-X-32B-1-copy.jpg>)
*Boeing's X-32.*

The shirt was born from a meme I created that made its rounds on social media shortly after the F-47 contract award to Boeing. In it, we see the F-47 in a flag-draped hangar with the X-32 looming over it, giving a command of family vengeance: "Rise and avenge me my son..." Now, we are recreating it in stylized wearable fashion!

https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/1903473224756895976

![](<https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Rule-The-Galaxy-mens-fitted-tee.jpg>)

**[Click here to grab yours for $25](<https://www.blipshift.com/products/rule-the-galaxy>) over at our partner Blipshift.com.**

They are available in various materials, as well as long-sleeve and hoodies.

And as always, thanks for supporting *TWZ*!

*Contact the author: Tyler@twz.com*

## Author
Tyler’s passion is the study of military technology, strategy, as well as foreign policy, and he has fostered a dominant voice on those topics in the defense and national security space. Tyler was the creator of the hugely popular defense site *Foxtrot Alpha* before developing *TWZ*, which he continues to lead as the Editor-In-Chief to this day.

### Author social links  
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