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Air Force Wants to Retire 253 Planes in Fiscal 2025

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, March 13th, 2024

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Air Force Wants to Retire 253 Planes in Fiscal 2025

F-22 Raptors assigned to the 525th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, 3rd Air Expeditionary Wing, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, fly over Nellis AFB, Nev. during Exercise Bamboo Eagle 24-on Jan. 31 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

To align with a proposed service reorganization to counter China and come up with funds for related modernization, the U.S. Air Force proposes to retire 253 aircraft in fiscal 2025. The divestments include 65 Boeing [BA] F-15C/Ds that would reduce the fleet of 92 fighters to 27; 56 A-10s to take the number of close air support planes from 218 to 162; 32 Block 20 Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-22As that would reduce Raptor numbers from 185 to 153; 26 Boeing…

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