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Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Defense Focus: F-15s' old-age crisis

The crisis afflicting the U.S. Air Force's F-15 domestic defense fleet is far wider, more serious and more deeply rooted than the American public seems to realize.

It is rooted in more than 15 years of systematic neglect of U.S. air power by Republicans and Democrats alike.

The U.S. Air Force moved quickly to pull some 450 old McDonnell-Douglas F-15 fighter aircraft after one of them crashed in Missouri on Nov. 2.

USAF investigators concluded that there were significant defects in the metal framework that held the body of the plane together.

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