The outgoing Air Force secretary threw shade at Musk after the key Trump adviser blasted crewed fighter jets.

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Air Force secretary: Elon Musk ‘not a warfighter,’ needs to learn more

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said he has "a lot of respect" for Elon Musk as an engineer, but said the billionaire is no warfighter.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images and Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesFrank Kendall, the Air Force Secretary, hit back on Elon Musk's comments slamming the F-35.While Kendall said he respects the billionaire, he said Musk is "not a warfighter."Musk has trashed the F-35 as obsolete compared to drones, …

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The Air Force Secretary said Elon Musk 'needs to learn a little bit more about the business' before deriding crewed fighter jets

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said Elon Musk should learn more about air combat tech before publicly slamming crewed fighter jets as obsolete. “I have a lot of respect for Elon Musk as an engineer,” Kendall said on Thursday at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. “He’s not a warfighter, and he needs to learn a little bit more about the business, I think, before he makes such grand announcements as he did,” Kendall said. Musk recentl…

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The Air Force Secretary said Elon Musk ‘needs to learn a little bit more about the business’ before deriding crewed fighter jets

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The Pentagon should continue to buy and upgrade the Lockheed Martin F-35, Frank Kendall said today, while underscoring that “better performance” is needed from the stealth jet’s manufacturer.

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‘Not a warfighter’: Air Force secretary hits back at Musk comments on canceling manned fighters

Outgoing secretary Frank Kendall also clapped back at recent comments by Elon Musk about manned vs. unmanned systems.

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Air Force may curtail F-35 plan if newer tech pans out, SECAF says

The U.S. Air Force is facing a significant challenge with its highly advanced F-22 Raptor fleet, often referred to as a "nightmare" due to a confluence of strategic, budgetary, and operational issues. Initially planned to be produced in numbers up to 750 to replace the aging F-15 Eagles, production was curtailed dramatically to just 186 units, with only about 130 ever being fully operational. This drastic reduction stemmed from post-Cold War bud…

Air Force secretary: Elon Musk ‘not a warfighter,’ needs to learn more

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