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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Officials: Fighter gap could reach 800 planes

The Air Force will begin facing a shortage of fighter aircraft by 2017, and the shortage will balloon to 800 aircraft by 2024, senior Air Force officials said Wednesday.

That fighter gap could force the Air Force to keep aging F-15s and F-16s flying beyond their anticipated retirement dates by sinking billions into additional service-life extension programs.

The projected gap is the result of the F-22 program being capped far short of the 381 aircraft the Air Force says it needs and Joint Strike Fighters, or F-35s, being purchased at a rate of 48 per year for more than three decades, said Lt. Gen. Donald J. Hoffman, military deputy to the office of the assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition.

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