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Senators Stunned By Air Force Plan For More Boeing F-15X Fighters, F-35 Cuts
The Air Force has outlined its major near term goals by submitting a five-year plan to Congress related to the Pentagon's 2020 budget proposal that favors procurement of Boeing's new F-15X fighter — seen as a more cost effective compliment to Lockheed Martin's F-35, and now apparently eclipsed as the Air Force plans to buy 48 F-35s each year during FY 2021-23 instead of the 54 previously planned.
But the F-15X, which is Boeing's upgraded F-15, is not necessarily in competition with the F-35, instead it represents Pentagon efforts at better battlefield integration against enemy targets:
In a future air fight, it’s possible that the more stealthy F-35A could get closer to enemies, spot them, then relay targeting data back to F-15Xs, which could launch the missiles at threats from a safe distance. The US military has embraced this kind of networked warfare as a whole, and the strengths of the F-15X and F-35A complement each other in such an environment.
The five-year plan calls for 80 F-15X fighters in a $7.8B investment that would increase from eight of the planes next year to 18 per year through 2024. Lockheed Martin's F-35 will get $37.5 billion over the five years, according to the proposal, but in numbers cut down from prior projections.
Gen. Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, explained to the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that the Pentagon is pursuing the F-15X partly because it is “slightly less expensive for procurement than the F-35, but it’s more than 50% cheaper to operate over time and it has twice as many hours in terms of how long it lasts.”
This cheaper F-15X Super Eagle, able to carry more weapons though without the stealth capability of the F-35 (the F-15X can carry nearly two dozen air-to-air missiles) is expected to have a service life of a whopping 20,000 hours.
What appears a slowed trajectory for the roll out of the F-35 will likely touch off intense debate, which has already begun in the form of a letter sent to President Trump and Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan from leading Republicans including John Cornyn and Ted Cruz of Texas, and Marco Rubio of Florida.
“As our nation’s only fifth-generation stealth fighter being built today, an investment in additional production and support for the F-35 fighter fleet is critical to ensuring the U.S. maintains air superiority,” five senators said in a letter last month, according to Bloomberg.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-19/air-force-plan-more-boeing-f-15x-fighters-met-pushback-f-35-proponents
woof! I certainly didn't when I did it. These kids now will huff anything though and have no idea of tolerance for whatever they try. Last year soome dumb kids picked up a flower that was toxic and tried to smoke it. Passed out cold, luckily they were close to a hospital.
rots of probrems with the F-35. The other ones are easier to maintain. But yea I see your point.
They should all hang, the F-35 is too expensive to maintain. Sexy yes but older is better.
The problems are with the way the data is used. The BLS uses a rolling average of the last 10 year's so if that data set shows that 10k construction jobs were created over that time-period then going forward 10k construction jobs will be created. The clintons and Shrub admin, under Elaine Chao were responsible for changing much of the way these number's were gathered and then 'cooked' for release. They have been a joke for decades.
probably not unless re-designed. It doesn't need it imo. All the carriers are already equipped to handle these planes and the mil knows them well.
can agree with that. Im not military and defer to those who have experience. How did this story NOT make the original notable list??
I am amazed that the original story was not in the notables list. This is the shit I was talking about last night.
Rest my case. How many discussions did this story produce?
But hey I'm just 'newsfag' right?
Total bullshit last night
Check yourself before you apply tags to anyone