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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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
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.
A yes, the hated A10. Tney cannot even believe thay have to waste pilots on a stupid plane like that. [/s].
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.
“Is that 188.1 billion going to DEI”
Tranny surgery ain’t cheap, especially when the Defense dept. is envolved.
I just knew they were going after the A-10s again.
That wuz my thought as well.
[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........
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.
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".
Keep the freakin’ A10’s. We are going to need them, soon.
Someone is asleep at the switch.
Excellent analogy!!
Keep the planes and retire (without pensions) these filth! Not the Air Force I enlisted in 61 years ago!
Retire=give to Ukraine since there not money forthcoming
Gotta have an expensive custom sugeryied tranny fanny to complement those $750 toilet seats
“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.
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