Air Force wants to build-up fighter inventory as focus in new 10-year plan shifts to homeland defense

Air Force wants to build-up fighter inventory as focus in new 10-year plan shifts to homeland defense

Over the next decade the Air Force wants to procure F-15EX Eagle II, F-35A Joint Strike Fighter and F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance jets in greater numbers to meet homeland defense priorities determined in the Interim National Defense Strategic Guidance, according to a report obtained by Inside Defense. Such a scheme could put 1,369 combat-capable aircraft on the ramp by early 2030, the service wrote in its long-term fighter force structure p…