Moseley stated that the Air Force is “within days” of announcing F-22 initial operational capability. Once that happens, Air Combat Command can deploy the fighter overseas. Moseley said he expects that to happen by early spring. His preferred first destination is the Pacific theater. The Chief said there’d be little value in deploying to Iraq or Afghanistan because there really is no role there now for an F-22. Taking the new fighter to the Pacific, he explained, would enable allies and the other services to get used to working with the F-22 and “seeing what it can do.”
In the face of Chinese war plans to disrupt U.S. command-and-control networks in the event of a conflict, the Air Force needs to focus less on its “connect everything” efforts and prepare its combat aviators to fight without a constant connection to higher-ups, according to a new report from AFA’s…
