{"id":188629,"date":"2010-08-21T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/21\/after-over-a-decade-of-starving-their-force-to-make-room-for-f-22s-and-f-35s\/"},"modified":"2010-08-21T06:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T11:15:00","slug":"after-over-a-decade-of-starving-their-force-to-make-room-for-f-22s-and-f-35s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/21\/after-over-a-decade-of-starving-their-force-to-make-room-for-f-22s-and-f-35s\/","title":{"rendered":"After Over a Decade of Starving Their Force to Make Room for F-22s and F-35s\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USAF is looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/blogs\/the-dewline\/2010\/08\/usaf-considers-new-f-15s-and-f.html\">buying new build F-16s and F-15s to fill the gap<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a  new report  today that for the first time reveals how US Air Force plans to deal with a fighter shortfall that is expected to reach 200 jets by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The GAO report summarizes two mandatory reports the USAF delivered in March to Congress. There are four options:<\/p>\n<p>1. Extending the service life of and modernizing about 300 F-16 aircraft<br \/>2. Increasing annual F-35 procurement above 80 aircraft per year<br \/>3. Procuring new upgraded variants of legacy aircraft such as the F-16 and F-15<br \/>4. A combination of options 2 and 3<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the USAF has even considered resuming F-16 and F-15 orders could be very significant. Two decades of USAF leaders have consistently upheld the all-stealth rule for combat aircraft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Significant is an understatement.<\/p>\n<p>The USAF has been doing its level best to create a fighter shortfall for the past 15 years or so in order to force a move to an all-stealth force.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the situation has gotten so dire that the USAF is considering buying some Eagles or Vipers is a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>It indicates that the budget pictures on the F-35 are even grimmer than previously understood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USAF is looking at buying new build F-16s and F-15s to fill the gap: The Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a new report today that for the first time reveals how US Air Force plans to deal with a fighter shortfall that is expected to reach 200 jets by 2025. The GAO report summarizes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1038,1008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-budget","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}