President Donald Trump on Tuesday lauded his administration for ordering 147 new F-35 Lightning stealth fighter jets, and claimed that people from “the other side” are mystified by the new aircraft — because they can’t see them.

“We’re ordering 147 new F-35 Lightning fighters. This is an incredible plane. It’s stealth. You can’t see it,” Trump told the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City.

“So when I talk to people from the other side, they’re trying to order our plane. They like the fact that you can’t see it,” the commander-in-chief continued.

The president said he then asked these people how they thought their own military aircraft would fare in a battle with the US jet.

“I said, ‘How would it do in battle with your plane?’ They say, ‘Well, we have one problem. We can’t see your plane.’ That’s a big problem. Stealth, super stealth. The best in the world. We make the best military equipment in the world.”

Stealth technology makes it far more difficult but not impossible for radar to detect and track aircraft — but does not make them invisible.

The president went on to tout the increase in defense spending on his watch — and warned hostile nations that the US would win decisively in any confrontation.

“My administration is committed to ensuring that our war fighters have the tools, the resources, the fire power that they need to defeat our enemies with overwhelming force,” he said.

“Hopefully we will never have to use the kind of power that I’m building and helping to build for you. America is a peace-loving nation. We do not seek conflict, but if conflict is forced upon us, we will defend ourselves, and if we must, we will fight and we will do nothing but win,” he continued.

“As the great General [Douglas] MacArthur once said, ‘In war there is no substitute for victory.’”