In 2023, the US Air Force will reduce the fleet of fighters from 1970 to 1800 units, and congress prohibits decommissioning the F-22 Block 20

After several years of resistance, the US Congress still allowed the Air Force to part with part of its fleet A-10 Warthog, after approving the service's plans to retire 21 units in 2023.

Although it's not clear if this means the Air Force will be successful in future attempts to retire all of its A-10 ground attack aircraft.

At the same time, it became known that as part of the US National Defense Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2023, promulgated on Tuesday, the House of Representatives and the Senate prohibited the Air Force technical services from mothballing, decommissioning, 33 of their F-22 Block 20 Raptor fighters.

Service chiefs said the planes were not operational and would cost approximately $1,8 billion to maintain over the next eight years. However, Congress has defended the current fleet of F-22s vigorously, and lawmakers have included language barring the divestment of aircraft — along with any cuts in personnel and logistics funding — from 2023 to 2026.

The USAF planned to sell over 260 aircraft from several fleets the following year.

The compromise NDAA allows the Air Force to reduce the total fleet of fighters from 1970 to 1800, which allows the service to abandon 26 and 67 F-16C / D and F-15C / D units, respectively. However, House and Senate commissioners have included language that compels Air Force officials to report on how the planned F-15 sale will affect ongoing operations before mothballing those aircraft.

For other platforms, Congress was more inclined to sell funds aviationwho served their own. The bill allows the Air Force to decommission 50 T-1 Jayhawk trainers that are used to train cadets before they move to platforms like the C-17 or KC-10. This will allow the service to use only the T-6 trainer.

For refueling tankers, the NDAA allows the Air Force to phase out 10 KC-10s and 13 KC-135s, but maintains a limit on the number of KC-135s.

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[Fedor Sokolov]

It is not difficult to guess where the decommissioned aircraft will go, really! Ukraine will suck everything into itself without a trace, like a black hole.

[Orange Bigg]

Quote: Fedor Sokolov

It is not difficult to guess where the decommissioned aircraft will go, really! Ukraine will suck everything into itself without a trace, like a black hole.

Black hole. Just not to feed the horse. Well, and earlier there was information that Ukrainian pilots are learning to fly on American A-10 attack aircraft.
And here's what they think in the West about the unsurpassed F-22 and F-35.

“The small number of F-22s, short range, outdated avionics, extremely low range and inability to effectively interact with modern combat assets, as well as its lack of out-of-sight combat capabilities, severely limit its potential,” Military Watch Magazine reports. notes that the rival F-22, the Russian fifth-generation fighter Su-57, “has already marked itself in the Ukrainian theater of operations by suppressing enemy air defenses and pinpoint strikes beyond the line of sight, and the F-22 is deprived of such capabilities.” F-22 Raptor de- actually not suitable for use in combat.

A simplified and cheaper version of the Raptor, the F-35, is massively exported, but does not participate in hostilities in conditions of strong enemy air defense, and is unlikely to participate. The only time this happened was when an Israeli Air Force F-35 was instantly shot down by an old Soviet S-200 air defense missile system, according to The Drive. Israel will no longer use the F-35 in combat missions in Syria, since "this expensive and newest American aircraft is a delicate topic for Israel and they will no longer risk the machine." In addition, numerous design defects of the F-35 have not been eliminated. The Lockheed Martin corporation that produces these fighters has not eliminated the defect in the 871 fighter that was previously discovered, Bloomberg reports.

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[solar]

Only Zen was still lacking here as an authoritative publication. And why not immediately an expert - Katya from Facebook?

[Orange Bigg]

Quote from solar

Only Zen was still lacking here as an authoritative publication. And why not immediately an expert - Katya from Facebook?

Zen only quotes respected Western publications such as

Military Watch Magazine.

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. portal The Drive.

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.reports Bloomberg.

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[Negro]

Quote from Orange Bigg

Zen only quotes respected Western publications such as
Military Watch Magazine.
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. portal The Drive.
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.reports Bloomberg.

1. Who are respected?
2. Does not quote, but misrepresents.

[unhappy]

The young man does not respect anyone, everyone lies and only he knows the truth! Nihilist however

[Negro]

There are a lot of lies on the Internet. Is this news to you?

[unhappy]

People go to the Internet for new information (this is news), and not for finding lies. Of course, a pig will find dirt (like the end of the world in such and such a year), if it is a stupid pig and is looking for dirt, but thinking people always find reliable information for themselves. Is this news to you?

[Negro]

Quote: unhappy

thinking people always find reliable information.

Orange Big's statements are obviously false, verifiable in two clicks. Whom did you mean by thinking person?

[unhappy]

I did not learn about the problems with the Fu-22 today and not from Orange Big, but much earlier. I THINK that you are deliberately ignoring real and available information or lying.

[Kaufman]

Wow .. There are 6 times more fighters than in the Russian Aerospace Forces. These are just the states.

[cold wind]

It's just the US Air Force. They still have fighters in the Navy and the ILC. Only in storage about 700 F-15/16/18.

[Negro]

Quote from cold wind

They still have fighters in the Navy and the ILC.

Forget the National Guard.

[Negro]

Quote: kaufman

There are 6 times more fighters than in the Russian Aerospace Forces. These are just the states.

You just found out, right?

[Pavel57]

Are -10, F-15, F-16 disposed of in Ukraine?

[cold wind]

They have more than F-15/16/18 and A10 in storage 800 things. If they wanted to supply these planes, they would have done it a long time ago. For the sake of this, it makes no sense to write off the current ones. Yes, and some will be disposed of, mostly they will be carefully stored.

[Nross]

The A-10 attack aircraft is their only workhorse, the best Amer's front-line air-to-ground fighter.
If the SGA decide to withdraw them from the composition, then they will have nothing to put on any high-intensity theater of operations.
It is possible that their idea is to replace front-line aviation covering ground battalion groups with drones, but so far there are not even such in terms of bomb load and the range of A-10 tasks.
At the same time, there is a risk that in the 2nd or 3rd year of the NWO, Polish pilots on the A-10 may appear there. For Russia, this is a threat, and one must be prepared for it.

[PPD]

A-10 attack aircraft ........ the best Amer frontline air-to-ground fighter.

Is an attack aircraft the best fighter?
And more format...
To be honest, it's not bad.

[Nross]

Your comment once again confirms that the "topvar" is a bunch of ridiculous sofa patriots. Mostly...

[PPD]

Your comment

Your.
No need to be rude.

frontline

Front-line know, there is something like that.
Oh, where the technology on skis is walking ..

exterminator

Fighter is spelled with E.
Maybe something new already. Then I will know.
An attack aircraft, a fighter, a fighter, a bomber are not the same thing.

front-line air-to-ground fighter.

It is a masterpiece. You made my morning.
I haven’t laughed like that for a long time.

[Negro]

Quote: Nross

It is possible that their idea is to replace front-line aviation

Naturally. In modern conditions, aviation with pilots in a high-intensity conflict in the area of ​​\u10b\uXNUMXbanti-aircraft artillery destruction is insane. And you can attach controls to anything. A-XNUMX is not needed.

Quote: Nross

it means they will have nothing to put on any high-intensity theater of operations.

Dream.

Quote: Nross

At the same time, there is a risk that in the 2nd or 3rd year of the NWO, Polish pilots on the A-10 may appear there

Why the hell are the Polish pilots there? Poland does not have A-10, it is easier to teach Ukrainian pilots from Su-24 again. Or has Konashenkov shot them all down twice?

And why the hell do Ukrainians A-10? Of course, they won’t interfere, but the F-16 is much more needed, and most importantly, the means of destruction that are integrated with the F-16: AGM-84, AGM-88, AGM-158 and so on.

[rocket757]

In 2023, the US Air Force will reduce the fleet of fighters from 1970 to 1800 units, and congress prohibits decommissioning the F-22 Block 20

InterEsnaya muddled ... optimization plus the option to shove, albeit old, but military equipment to their satellites, henchmen.

[TermNachTer]

Aviation is being reduced, the fleet is being reduced, about the army, in general, as about a dead person, that is, nothing, but billions are going to Ukraine. Where is the logic here?

[Negro]

Quote: TermNachTER

Aviation is being reduced, the fleet is being reduced, about the army, in general, as about a dead man

)))
Dream.

Quote: TermNachTER

but billions go to Ukraine

Not "but" but "also". Yes, it's nice to be rich.

[TermNachTer]

The printing press is not wealth, but a dangerous illusion, especially now.

[Negro]

Quote: TermNachTER

The printing press is not wealth, but a dangerous illusion, especially now.

)))
You see, anyone can print dollars, but for some reason only Americans get real dollars, the rest have fake ones. Didn't you wonder why?

[TermNachTer]

Alas, for the owners of the printing house, there is bad news. If earlier, the transition of the dollar from the category of the main reserve currency, into the category of one of several, was expected by 2050, now they are already talking about 2030. That is, it will not be so interesting to print dollars, because they will not be bought.

[Negro]

Quote: TermNachTER

now they are talking about 2030

They've been talking for as long as I can remember. And they will talk, apparently, until I die.

[TermNachTer]

I don’t know how long you remember yourself, but they started talking about it seriously about 10 years ago, when China “got on its feet”. Then the optimistic date was called - 2050. Now this figure has been heavily adjusted, because the national debt of 31 trillion dollars is no longer funny. Even not the smartest people understand that even if you sell the entire mattress land, together with grandfather Bidon, you won’t even get half of this amount. By the way, this year, a record volume of purchases of gold in gold reserves. Nobody wants to buy dollars, pounds, euros, or yen. I wonder why?))))

[Negro]

Quote: TermNachTER

I don’t know how long you remember yourself, but they started talking about it seriously about 10 years ago, when China “got on its feet

You remember yourself for 10 years. Prior to this, the "killer of the dollar" was the euro, before that the yen-mark-pound, whatever they invented. And somehow it doesn't.

Quote: TermNachTER

a debt of 31 trillion bucks is no longer funny

Nobody is going to laugh. Their debt is slightly higher than GDP, while they owe mostly to their own central bank. Unlike China, where the debt hangs on the balance sheets of state-owned companies and amounts to about three times GDP (it is not yet known exactly), while part of the debt is not in yuan. And the Bank of China does not print dollars yet, as I have already noted.

Quote: TermNachTER

By the way, this year, the record volume of gold purchases in gold reserves

Someone decided to speculate, expecting that gold always goes up in a recession? It's funny, but for almost the entire 22nd year, gold went down. Which hints that few people took the latest geopolitical news seriously.

[Jafar]

Service chiefs said the planes were not operational and would cost approximately $1,8 billion to maintain over the next eight years. However, Congress has strongly defended the current fleet of F-22s.

IMHO, the cost of maintaining an incapacitated park can only be explained by sawing

[Pavel57]

20 years ago, on another forum, I suggested that the next Ukrainian fighter would be the F-16. Now the choice has expanded.