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Atticus escribió:Antey escribió:Básicamente están rehaciendo los planes, ellos saben muy bien que mantener una flota de 2400 aviones de 5ta es algo extremadamente costoso, y además ya no estamos en los 2000, China ya no es la que era y en 10-15 años será muy diferente de lo que es hoy.
Me temo que todo esto es tan sencillo como que los USA estan descubriendo la diferencia entre "tener los aviones que se quiere" y "tener los aviones que se puede"....
US Air Force asks to retire 201 older aircraft, plans to invest in R&D and new aircraft
29 May 2021
The US Air Force (USAF) is asking the US Congress to let it retire 201 aircraft in fiscal year 2022, in order to reinvest savings from not operating and maintaining those aircraft into research and development, as well as procurement of next-generation aircraft and weapons.
Emphasising it needs aircraft that are “lethal and survivable against a peer threat”, the service says it can save maintenance and operations funds by retiring aircraft it deems obsolete. It expects to save $1.37 billion from divestments, according to its FY2022 budget request, released on 28 May.
The USAF is requesting a fiscal year 2022 budget of $156 billion from the US Congress, a 2.3% increase over the year prior. The Space Force is requesting $17.4 billion, a 13.1% increase.
Overall, President Joe Biden is requesting $715 billion for the US Department of Defense, a 1.6% increase over the FY2021. The Pentagon also wants $112 billion for research, development, test and evaluation – “the most ever requested by the department” and a 5% increase from the prior year, it says.
...The USAF says its acquisition priorities include the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent, the ballistic missile replacement for the Minuteman III; the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD), the USAF’s future air superiority fighter that is supposed to replace the F-22; the Advanced Battle Management System ABMS, an in-development battlefield communications network; the Next-Gen Overhead Persistent Infrared missile warning satellite system; and the B-21 Raider stealth bomber. Upgrading the Boeing B-52 and continuing F-35 acquisitions are also priorities.
Divestment requests
Aircraft FY2022 divestment quantities FY2022 projected savings in millions
A-10 42 $343.90
F-15C/D 48 $248.90
F-16C/D 47 $30.90
KC-135 18 $112.70
KC-10 14 $174
C-130H 8 $83.10
E-8 JSTARS 4 $106.50
RQ-4 Block 30 20 $273.30
Total 201 $1,373.30
Aircraft that the USAF deems expensive to maintain or vulnerable to being shot down by sophisticated adversaries, such as China or Russia, are ripe for retirement. For example, the F-15C/D, which the service says has major structure issues and will run out of safe airframe flying hours between 2023 and 2027.
“By the 2035-2040 timeframe, the Air Force must have a fighter fleet that provides the capability, capacity, and affordability to meet air superiority and global strike needs for our nation’s defence. To attain the desired fighter fleet, the Air Force must right-size current aircraft inventories to expedite the transition away from less-capable, aging aircraft & emphasise investment in future capabilities such as NGAD and F-35 modernisation.”
The need to “right-size current aircraft inventories” also means the aging A-10 close-air support fleet should be cut down to a smaller size, it says. The USAF says that aircraft is only useful for counter-terrorism and lower intensity conflicts.
The Department of Defense calls the F-35 the backbone of its fleet, but requested purchases are down its FY2022 proposed budget. For example, the USAF is requesting 48 examples of the F-35A, a dozen fewer than ordered in FY2021.
Requested purchases of most aircraft and weapons are down, except for long-range cruise missiles and hypersonic missiles. Those weapons are believed to be able to penetrate the air defences of advanced adversaries. The USAF wants to order its first hypersonic missile into production and has budgeted funds for 12 examples of Lockheed Martin’s Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW).
USAF aircraft quantities requested
Aircraft FY2021 enacted FY2022 requested
F-35A 60 48
HH-60W 19 14
KC-46A 15 14
F-15EX 12 12
MC-130 4 3
USAF munitions quantities requested
Munitions FY2021 enacted FY2022 requested
Joint Direct Attack Munition 16,800 1,919
AGM-113 Hellfire 4,517 1,176
Small Diameter Bomb - II 743 985
Small Diameter Bomb - I 2462 998
AGM-158 JASSM-ER 400 525
AIM-9X Sidewinder 331 243
AIM-120D AMRAAM 268 168
ARRW 0 12
https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing ... 57.article
Antey escribió:Y si, son patos de feria volantes... ya los iranies les tiraron uno. quieren plataformas furtivas
“The Air Force will continue to pursue the [fiscal 2021 National Defense Authorization Act] RQ-4 Block 30 divestment waiver in order to repurpose the RQ-4 Block 30 funds for penetrating [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance] capability,” acting Air Force Secretary John Roth and Chief of Staff Gen. C.Q. Brown said in written testimony to Congress.
Antey escribió:Si, pero con los RC-135 no se atreven a acercarse demasiado al espacio aéreo de ciertos paises (irán), con el RQ-4 o el RQ-170 por el otro lado... En cualquier caso, puede que algo se me este pasando, que otra razón habría para retirarlos tan pronto?
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