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Air Force Eyes 2016 For F-35 IOC, Reviews F-16 SLEP Plans

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By Marina Malenic LANGLEY AFB, Va.-- The Air Force is studying how best to mitigate the approximately three-year slip before the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will be ready for deployment by the service, its chief airpower provider said last week. "We continue to look across all of our platforms and look for how best to employ those aircraft," Gen. William Fraser, the head of Air Combat Command, told Defense Daily in a June 18 interview here. "As we look across…

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