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Air Force wants to retire 250 aircraft as part of $188B FY25 budget request
Breaking Defense ^ | March 11, 2024 at 2:00 PM | Michael Marrow

Posted on 03/12/2024 3:21:55 AM PDT by Fish Speaker

WASHINGTON — The US Air Force will request a total of $188.1 billion in the 2025 fiscal year, part of a budget submission that asks lawmakers to greenlight the retirement of 250 aircraft, officials revealed today.

In a Friday briefing with reporters ahead of the budget release, Kristyn Jones, who is performing the duties of the Air Force Undersecretary, said that the service’s budget would grow by about 1.6% compared to the FY24 request of $185.1 billion, an increase of $3 billion. For the Department of the Air Force (DAF), which includes the Space Force, the DAF’s topline would grow from from $215.1 billion in FY24 to $217.5 billion in FY25, an increase of about 1.1%.

“We’re very, very fixated on being competitive with the pacing challenge [of China],” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told reporters during the Friday briefing. “I think the budget that we’ve submitted moves us forward — not quite as fast as we would like to, but it moves us forward in the right direction while maintaining the current capabilities that are essential to the nation. So I’m pretty comfortable with what we’re asking for, given the constraints that we have.”

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: a10; airforce; budget; fy25; retireaircraft; warthog
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The total list of the 250 retirements the service is seeking in FY25 is as follows:

32 F-22s
26 F-15Es
11 F-16C/Ds
65 F-15C/Ds
56 A-10s
22 T-1As
12 HH-60Gs
6 C-130Hs
1 EC-130H
2 CV-22s
1 E-11
16 KC-135s

1 posted on 03/12/2024 3:21:55 AM PDT by Fish Speaker
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To: Fish Speaker

The air force has been run by retards for a very long time. The current crop of leaders is the worst of a long line of declining ability and character. I doubt they could win an air war with Mexico.


2 posted on 03/12/2024 3:27:51 AM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: Fish Speaker

A yes, the hated A10. Tney cannot even believe thay have to waste pilots on a stupid plane like that. [/s].


3 posted on 03/12/2024 3:36:32 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Fish Speaker

Retiring thise A10s is a huge mistake....give them to Ukraine!

Or keep them...we are going to need them.

Is that 188.1 billion going to DEI ? Wpld not suprise me at all.


4 posted on 03/12/2024 3:36:50 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He htrolls for thee!),<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Fish Speaker
Knew the A-10 would be on the list, the AF hates it, but us grunts feel the love.

Pin on Automobile & Aviation
5 posted on 03/12/2024 3:38:53 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: Candor7

“Is that 188.1 billion going to DEI”

Tranny surgery ain’t cheap, especially when the Defense dept. is envolved.


6 posted on 03/12/2024 3:41:34 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Fish Speaker

I just knew they were going after the A-10s again.


7 posted on 03/12/2024 3:43:47 AM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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To: Candor7

That wuz my thought as well.


8 posted on 03/12/2024 3:45:13 AM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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To: Fish Speaker

[32 F-22s
26 F-15Es
11 F-16C/Ds
65 F-15C/Ds
56 A-10s]

Put ‘em on ice

Put ‘em in the Boneyard

Wait, there’s no ice in the Boneyard........


9 posted on 03/12/2024 3:48:42 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: DAC21
I'll do 'em for 100 bucks each.


10 posted on 03/12/2024 3:50:07 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He htrolls for thee!),<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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Instead of giving Ukraine the F-16s, why not give them these planes which are destined for a boneyard, especially the A-10s, which might make a small difference in the war.


11 posted on 03/12/2024 3:50:29 AM PDT by srmanuel ( )
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To: Fish Speaker

https://rumble.com/v4iq5rr-31-year-us-army-veteran-colonel-larry-wilkerson-tells-high-schoolers-do-not.html


12 posted on 03/12/2024 3:52:33 AM PDT by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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To: Candor7
Retiring those A10s is a huge mistake....give them to Ukraine!

Proud to say that I helped build those back in the '70s. But it may be time.....the current battlefield is awash in MANPADS and cheap drones. They did a helluva job in Desert Storm though. A guy who flew one said to me years later, regarding the ease with which they dispatched Saddam's armor: "it was like making war on your dog".

13 posted on 03/12/2024 4:00:20 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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Keep the freakin’ A10’s. We are going to need them, soon.


14 posted on 03/12/2024 4:01:52 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: srmanuel
I agree.

Someone is asleep at the switch.



15 posted on 03/12/2024 4:02:27 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He htrolls for thee!),<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: hopespringseternal

Excellent analogy!!


16 posted on 03/12/2024 4:06:45 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: hopespringseternal

Keep the planes and retire (without pensions) these filth! Not the Air Force I enlisted in 61 years ago!


17 posted on 03/12/2024 4:08:26 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Fish Speaker

Retire=give to Ukraine since there not money forthcoming


18 posted on 03/12/2024 4:10:50 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: DAC21
Tranny surgery ain't cheap, especially when the Defense dept. is envolved.


Gotta have an expensive custom sugeryied tranny fanny to complement those $750 toilet seats

19 posted on 03/12/2024 4:19:01 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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“Air Force wants to retire 250 aircraft as part of $188B FY25 budget request”

Take that Putin, we don’t need no aircraft for our military because WE ARE AMERICA and therefore WE ARE INVINCIBLE!!!!

Can’t you tell that in Ukraine by now!!! Just think about our Bradlee’s and Abraham Tanks - INVINCIBLE, I tell INVINCIBLE!!! ...ehhh, other than against Russian weapons that is.


20 posted on 03/12/2024 4:21:35 AM PDT by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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