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Analysts Call for Larger Air Force as Service Warns of Retiring Legacy Platforms

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Analysts Call for Larger Air Force as Service Warns of Retiring Legacy Platforms
Hill Air Force Base F-35As fly in formation over the Utah Test and Training Range, March 30, 2017. (U.S. Air Force photo/R. Nial Bradshaw)

The Air Force needs to quickly develop more units of next-generation capabilities over the next two decades to address near-peer threats, and should not retire its legacy systems before enough new platforms are in the field, analysts said Sept. 5. The MITRE Corp. and the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment (CSBA) each recently completed a Pentagon-funded study to determine “The Air Force We Need” to combat future great power competition, with both analyses arguing for more aircraft to fill…

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