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Carlisle Believes Air Force Ready To Increase F-35 Buy Rate

Pat Host

Wednesday, July 13th, 2016

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Carlisle Believes Air Force Ready To Increase F-35 Buy Rate

The first F-35A for the Italian Air Force, and the first F-35 built at the Cameri FACO, takes to the skies over Italy, Sept. 7, 2015. Photo: Lockheed Martin.

The head of Air Combat Command (ACC) believes the Air Force is ready to increase its F-35 buy rate to 60 aircraft per year after working out a concurrency issue earlier in the program.Air Force Gen. Herbert Carlisle told a House panel Wednesday the near-term goal is 60 aircraft per year but, ideally, he’d like 80 aircraft per year, though he questioned how that would fit among the service’s budget priorities. Currently, 48 F-35s are produced each year, he said…

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