Title : U.S. Air Force Planning To Retire Its F-22 Fleet
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U.S. Air Force Planning To Retire Its F-22 Fleet
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)
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