An F-22 Raptor flies over Kadena Air Base, Japan, Jan. 23 2009 on a routine training mission. The F-22 is deployed from the 27th Fighter Squadron at Langley Air Force Base, Va.
Air Force Magainze: CSAF: F-22 Not in USAF’s Long-Term Plan
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. wants to neck down the Air Force’s fighter inventory from seven fleets to four, and the F-22 is not on his short list.
Speaking during the McAleese FY2022 Defense Programs Conference on May 12, Brown said the tactical aviation study, which launched earlier this year, isn’t meant to produce the exact “right mix” of fighters for the future but to assemble a range of options that will shift as the threat does.
“What I’m looking for out of the [TacAir] study,” Brown explained, is not necessarily “the exact answer of what is the exact mix” of the USAF’s combat aircraft of the future. “I’m really looking for a window of options,” he said, because “the facts and assumptions based on the threat will change over time.”
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Update #1: The Air Force Is Planning For a Future Without the F-22 (Defense One)
Update #2: Air Force Chief Hints at Retiring the F-22 Raptor in Fighter Downsize (Military.com)
WNU Editor:This is a surprise.
5 comments:
Expensive program, Few tails, contractors are buttheads, legitimate budget issues illegitimate budget issues
F22 tooling destroyed soon after production completed. Go figure. Imagine the power and greatness of the U.S if it wasn't a cesspool of greed and corruption.
The decline is escalating.
Does left hand know what right hand doing?
"F22 tooling destroyed soon after production completed. Go figure. Imagine the power and greatness of the U.S if it wasn't a cesspool of greed and corruption."
If some Air Force maintenance tech find a fix and actually fix the plane not according to contractor methods and it actually works, the government literally has to undo the fox and the let the contractor "find" a fix and charge the government for it at a later date and more cost.
This happened with a stress crack. True story.
President Puppet and his cabal of thieves want to waive vaccine patents. Instead they could fix the defense acquisition system. But although it is extremely important to the long or short term survival of the U.S. it is boring and they won't fix it.
It would be nice to buy affordable military aircraft.
You think that jackwagon Austin will fix defense acquisition? He has been on both sides of the fence. Don't hold you breath.
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