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F-22 retirements

What’s in the New NDAA: Pay Raises, No F-22 Divestments, and … Beards?

Dec. 9, 2024 | By Greg Hadley
Senate and House lawmakers released their compromise 2025 National Defense Authorization bill on Dec. 7—the proposed legislation would give a 14.5 percent pay raise to junior enlisted Airmen and Guardians and prohibit the Air Force from retiring any F-15E or F-22 fighters.

Air Force ‘Doesn’t Just Need Airplanes’ to Modernize, Kendall Says

May 9, 2023 | By Chris Gordon
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall insists the service needs to modernize rapidly to face the threat of China. But modernization does not just mean fielding new aircraft, Kendall and other service leaders argue—the Air Force also needs to retire its aging airplanes. “The truth is ...

Keeping the F-22 Credible Through 2030 Will Cost At Least $9 Billion, USAF Leaders Say

April 4, 2023 | By John A. Tirpak
The Air Force plans to spend more than $9 billion through the end of the decade to keep the F-22 capable until its successor, the Next-Generation Air Dominance family of systems, becomes available. New sensors and fuel tanks dominate procurement, with other funding going to ...

USAF Seeks ‘Transformational’ Change in 2023 Budget as It Looks to Keep Pace With China

March 28, 2022 | By Abraham Mahshie and John A. Tirpak
The Department of the Air Force is requesting $234.1 billion in its 2023 budget request, of which $40.1 billion is "pass-through funds," or money the services will never see, while $169.5 billion is for USAF and $24.5 billion is for the Space Force. The budget ...
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