USAF FY2020 Budget
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USAF FY2020 Budget
$165.6B - up $10B on FY2019.
48 x F-35A - $4.9B
8 x F-15EX - $1.1B
12 x KC-46A
8 x MC-130J
12 x MQ-9 Reaper
1 x EC-37B Compass Call
B-21 Program - $3B
F-35 Block 4 Modernization Program - $794M
Next Generation Air Dominance Program - including Gen 6 fighter - $1B (up from $430M in FY2019)
T-X Trainer R&D - $348.5M
Replacement Presidential Aircraft development - $576M
https://www.defensenews.com/smr/fede...emerging-tech/
48 x F-35A - $4.9B
8 x F-15EX - $1.1B
12 x KC-46A
8 x MC-130J
12 x MQ-9 Reaper
1 x EC-37B Compass Call
B-21 Program - $3B
F-35 Block 4 Modernization Program - $794M
Next Generation Air Dominance Program - including Gen 6 fighter - $1B (up from $430M in FY2019)
T-X Trainer R&D - $348.5M
Replacement Presidential Aircraft development - $576M
https://www.defensenews.com/smr/fede...emerging-tech/
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F-15X now expected to be bought over multiple years ahead to recapitalize F-15C/D fleet which now has major structural issues. More here:
F-15X Will Come In Two Variants, And No, It Won't Cost $100M Per Copy - The Drive
F-15X Will Come In Two Variants, And No, It Won't Cost $100M Per Copy - The Drive
Procuring new variants of a fighter that last rolled off the production line for USAF 33 years ago has to be a real admission of defeat in the procurement space. Inevitably people will lament that if we had to buy a legacy fighter why oh why couldn’t it be an upgraded F-22, ignoring the impossibility of that scenario of course.
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The issue with F-22 isn't the jigs or tooling, it's the avionics and mission systems. They are all based on obsolete 1980s technologies and architectures which are difficult to acquire and support. The F-15 architecture has moved with the times for export customers so is, essentially, "off the peg". You could consider retrofitting F-35 avionics to the F-22 airframe but, to be honest, it's probably cheaper to go straight to the Gen 6 F-X concept and buy updated F-15s to increase combat mass to fill the gap in the interim….which, I guess, is the USAF's opinion too….
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There are a few other articles as well that refute your assertion. If this and the other articles are to be believed, the jigs tooling and whatever else is needed is in storage at the Sierra Army Depot in California.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/mil...-line-is-dead/
There are a few other articles as well that refute your assertion. If this and the other articles are to be believed, the jigs tooling and whatever else is needed is in storage at the Sierra Army Depot in California.
$165.6B - up $10B on FY2019.
48 x F-35A - $4.9B
8 x F-15EX - $1.1B
12 x KC-46A
8 x MC-130J
12 x MQ-9 Reaper
1 x EC-37B Compass Call
B-21 Program - $3B
F-35 Block 4 Modernization Program - $794M
Next Generation Air Dominance Program - including Gen 6 fighter - $1B (up from $430M in FY2019)
T-X Trainer R&D - $348.5M
Replacement Presidential Aircraft development - $576M
https://www.defensenews.com/smr/fede...emerging-tech/
48 x F-35A - $4.9B
8 x F-15EX - $1.1B
12 x KC-46A
8 x MC-130J
12 x MQ-9 Reaper
1 x EC-37B Compass Call
B-21 Program - $3B
F-35 Block 4 Modernization Program - $794M
Next Generation Air Dominance Program - including Gen 6 fighter - $1B (up from $430M in FY2019)
T-X Trainer R&D - $348.5M
Replacement Presidential Aircraft development - $576M
https://www.defensenews.com/smr/fede...emerging-tech/
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