Air Force Needs at Least 300 F-47s to Ensure Future Air Superiority, Report Says

Air Force needs at least 300 F-47s to ensure future air superiority, report says

The Air Force should plan to buy no fewer than 300 F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance platforms across the future years defense program if it wants to be dominant in sustained conflict across several theaters, according to a not-yet released Mitchell Institute report. Bulking up the service’s inventory of its sixth-generation fighter -- which is projected to have longer ranges, higher payloads and wideband low observability -- stands to allow th…

New Report: Air Force Needs 200 B-21s, 300 F-47s

In order to deny China “sanctuaries” from which it can launch air and missile salvos during a potential invasion of Taiwan, the U.S. Air Force needs to buy far more B-21 bombers and F-47 fighters than currently planned, according to a new report from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.  Working together, those sixth-generation aircraft will be able to penetrate adversary airspace and fight “from the inside out,” delivering decisive …