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Kendall: 30-Year Old Aircraft an ‘Anchor’ Holding Back USAF Modernization

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Kendall: 30-Year Old Aircraft an ‘Anchor’ Holding Back USAF Modernization
Frank Kendall speaks at a space symposium last August (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Congress should permit the U.S. Air Force to retire dozens of aging planes to help the service fund modernization, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told the Reagan National Defense Forum on Dec. 4. "If there were one ask I would have of the Congress, it would be to allow the Air Force to retire its old and irrelevant airplanes so that we can free up the resources we need...to confront China and what they're doing in their military modernization program,"…

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