![]() The F-22 will be replaced by the NGAD jet, which will fly alongside the “F-35, which will be the cornerstone, F-15EX as we come in, and then we'll have F-16 for a while as well,” Brown said. “My intent is to get down to about four, OK, and with that four, what is the right mix?”īrown said the fighter makeup is “really a four-plus-one, because we're going to have the A-10 for a while as we re-wing” the venerable Warthog to extend its service life into the 2030s. “Right now we have seven fighter fleets,” Brown said. ![]() CQ Brown, Air Force chief of staff, said at a McAleese and Associates virtual conference. Those four will be the F-35, F-15EX, F-16, and the Next Generation Air Dominance, or NGAD, fighter, Gen. ![]() Air Force aims to pare its fighter fleet to just four types - and the F-22 Raptor won’t be among them, the service’s top general said Wednesday.
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