somewhere, PukinDog is laughing...> By 2038, the service wants to have 1763 F-35 aircraft in service. However, this procurement schedule might not be financially feasible for the Air Force.
Ain’t gonna happen. It’s going to turn out like the numbers for the F-22.
84 F-15SAs destined for Saudi Arabia
Isis or the Iranians will end up with those if we don’t have a rescue plan for them.
somewhere, PukinDog is laughing...F-15 and 16 are far better planes.
The Air Force should have pulled the plug on the POS F-35 years ago.
“1763 F-35 aircraft in service...”
That will never happen.
>>>Boeing previously offered a stealthy “Silent Eagle†version for South Korea’s F-X III fighter competition, but that country last year settled on the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II for the requirement<<<
South Korea really screwed up with that decision.
Sure be nice to buy some hardware if we’re so intent of starting World War 3 with the Russians.
To bad they got rid of the F-14 Tomcat.
15s backing up 22s is a common sense approach for once.
The only thing they should be buying is F22s.
Thousands of them.
Only AFTER we get this anti-American Fascist out of office.
Excellent news? Why? They’re not built, yet. Who’s going to fly these “planes”? The Muslim Brotherhood?
The biggest problem with the F-35 is that it was sold as a fighter to replace the F-16 (originally a high maneuverability day fighter) and F/A-18 (grew out of the F-17 dayfighter that lost to the F-16) rather than as a stealthy light-attack successor to the A-7, F-117 and AV-8B.
It’s going to turn out to be a much better platform than people think, when considered as a stealthy light attack plane first, and a fighter somewhere a bit further down the list.
You know the mil buyers and the builders need to re-think everything when it makes more sense to go with a beefed up 40 year old platform over the new design.
Buying new build F-16’s is what USAF should have been doing all along. Several evolutionary improvements to the F-16 have been proposed over the years, and USAF always shot them down in their mad chase for an all-stealth fleet.
This is excellent news.. for the other aircraft I’d agree.
Not for the American taxpayer, it’s a nightmare when it comes to the F-35. 15 years in developmental test and it’s a pathetic aircraft but like any government program they just keep dumping money into it.
Did someone wake up somebody in charge at the Air Force!!!
This article is garbage. Lockheed won’t sell the F-16 to USAF, it’s foreign customers only. Lockheed has already told the USG repeatedly, “If you wanna buy F-22s or F-35s, great! Wanna buy F-16s? Hit the road, Jack.”