Business Insider: US Air Force secretary says the service needs to get rid of aircraft that don't threaten China
* The US Air Force secretary has said repeatedly the US needs to get rid of old aircraft to hone capabilities that 'scare China.'
* "If it doesn't threaten China, why are we doing it?" he said recently.
* The Air Force chief of staff also wants to retire older aircraft, but the service faces pushback from Congress.
The US Air Force needs to retire older aircraft that are not well suited for a conflict with China to make way for newer systems with the capabilities necessary for great power conflict, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall said again this weekend, according to Defense News.
"If it doesn't threaten China, why are we doing it?" Kendall asked at the Reagan National Defense Forum on Saturday, calling the service's fleet of aging fighters, tankers, and drones an "anchor holding back the Air Force" as it works to respond to modern threats.
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US Air Force’s new goal? Get rid of planes that don’t scare China -- Military Times
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3 comments:
How the hell can a $trillion a year national security state not have enough planes?
America already has hundreds of nuclear warheads prowling the seas ready to rain nuclear death on China, but, yes, MOAR planes, please.
Once the threats are identified we can decide how to allocate resources. On terms of most likely occurrences the threats are as follows. 1.) An Islamic terrorist attack involving the use of multiple "suitcase" nuclear weapons and other "sorry bombs" detonated simultaneously across multiple metropolitan areas. Tens of millions of people would die. 2.) An all out nuclear attack by Russia that involves the use of cyber attacks along with other Saratoga making it impossible for us to counter. 3.) An invasion of the US mainland by Russia, China, both of them, or them and some combination of their allies. While 1 is more likely 2 is the most dangerous.
Now that the main threats have been properly identified we are now able to make sound decisions as to how limited resources should be allocated. It really is a very good question as to how a nation a trillion dollar a year military budget managed to find itself in such a precarious position with regards to it's defense.
what a maroon, a-10 is still the best air support plane in the world
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