Five minutes later, four U.S. Air Force F-16 fighters from nearby Luke Air Force Base will conduct a fly-over in the "missing man" formation.
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Air Force F-15E fighter jets will launch the new weapon, which would find its target either by a laser or satellite guidance system.
The Lockheed Martin F-35C that the Navy is officially planning to buy is a stealthy, single-engine strike fighter derived from the same technologies as the Air Force F-35A and Marine Corps F-35B.
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Further, Test and Evaluation officials discovered a handful of cracks on the right wing and right engine of the U.S. Air Force F-35A version, as well as multiple cracks on the bulkhead flange of the Marine short takeoff F-35B version.
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Much like the U.S. Air Force F-16 program yielded greater quantity discounts through competition and earning its way into foreign air forces, the Army leveraged a steadily expanding community of Patriot partners to procure systems more economically while continually enhancing system performance and technology.
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The company said that the Department of Defense authorized the purchase of six F-35A aircraft for the Air Force and tentatively approved the purchase of six F-35B aircraft for the Marine Corps.
They requested a show of force by an F-15 fighter jet and AC-130 gunship, which launched warning flares toward the positions high above the commandos, the report concludes.
F-22 Raptor, the Air Force's most advanced fighter, whose production line will have to begin shutting down if more jets aren't ordered soon.
John Boyd, a great Air Force fighter strategist behind the F-16.
The Houthis, as the rebels are known after the name of a leading clan in the remote and spectacularly rugged region, have survived the repeated assaults not just of Yemen's own modern army but also, in the latest campaign, heavy bombardment by the Saudi air force's Tornadoes and F-15 fighter aircraft.
Meanwhile, the Air Force will have to live with 187 F-22s when the next adversary arrives.
For example, production has been halted on the world's best fighter aircraft, the F-22, well short of abiding Air Force requirements.
The air force would like a second batch of F-22 fighters to add to the 187 it will already have by 2011.
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Although the number of F-22 fighters was capped at 187, the Air Force would increase its long-range strike capabilities by 50 percent and the penetrating component of long-range strike by a factor of five by 2025.
In theory, the Air Force has many hundreds of tactical aircraft like the F-15E fighter-bomber that might be used to prosecute an air campaign in the Western Pacific, but those planes have limited ranges and thus would be heavily dependent on aerial refueling.
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After graduating from the Air Force Academy in 1973, he had a brief but distinguished Air Force career during which he flew the Vietnam-era F-4 Phantom fighter jet.
Her focus included emphasizing Air Force core values, its mission in space, and funding for F-22 fighters.
Boyd is considered the father of the F-16, an inexpensive, highly maneuverable jet fighter that the Air Force brass resisted with all their might. ( Lockheed Martin (nyse: LMT - news - people ) has since cranked out more than 4, 000 of them).
Certainly it is now clear that the work done on the cost implications of retiring the Harrier force and replacing it (after a gap of many years) with F-35C was quite inadequate.
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Just last week, our Air Force -- our own Air Force -- used an advanced biofuel blend to fly a Raptor 22 -- an F-22 Raptor faster than the speed of sound.
As experience with flying remotely-piloted vehicles has increased, loss rates have fallen considerably, to a point where the Air Force projects that by 2013 they will be comparable to the loss rates for the manned F-16 fighter.
The defense secretary had used a similar approach in dealing with the Air Force two years earlier, replacing a Secretary and Chief of Staff too committed to the F-22 fighter with new leaders who would not oppose his counter-insurgency-centered spending priorities.
Last week's order to ground the planes - in the US air force, army and Marine Corps - marked the second time in two months planes from the F-35 range have been grounded.
On May 13, the Saudi Air Force held an air show at Tabuk for the benefit of King Abdullah and senior princes where the F-15s where ostentatiously displayed.
Gates said at the time that the F-22 was not relevant to counterinsurgency campaigns in Southwest Asia or to the most likely warfighting scenarios the joint force would face in the future.
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