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USAF Assessing Munitions Inventory and Future Needs

Frank Wolfe

Monday, February 13th, 2023

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USAF Assessing Munitions Inventory and Future Needs

An F-16 from the 85th Test and Evaluation squadron sits on the ramp at Eglin AFB, Fla. on October 2, 2019 with a JASSM-ER missile before an operational test (Photo: U.S. Air Force)

The U.S. Air Force is assessing its inventory of munitions and future needs for high-end conflicts in which the service plans to use the Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) architecture for rapid targeting of mobile adversaries, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown said on Feb. 13. Brown told a Brookings Institution forum that the Air Force is in a "pretty good spot for most of the munitions." "I think about not only capability, but capacity…

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