USAF has a bunch of problem areas right now, pure Air Force issues that a new Tramp administration Air Force secretary will need to cope with. The on going and worsening cost overruns and schedule slippage on the F-35 fighter program. It's gotten so bad that Canada recently bailed out and will buy F-18's instead. There is more slippage and over runs on the KC-46 tanker program. ust starting up is a new strategic bomber (B-21) program. And a new air launched ground attack missile to serve as a penetration aid for that bomber. And the fighter pilot mafia keeps trying to kill off the A-10 program over the protests of the Army and the Marines. The creeping paralysis overtaking all new programs. In WWII we could move a new fighter from paper spec to mass production and into combat inside of a year. The F-35 program has been running for twenty years and the plane still isn't combat ready. Right now the gun won't fire, and the engines catch fire if the plane pulls more than 5.6 G.
New Air Force secretary has his work cut out for him.
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