USAF Aircraft Fortunes Rise And Fall

By David A. Fulghum .

With the Pentagon facing yet another round of budget cutting and a continuing search for efficiencies — along with a reassessment of roles and missions to fine-tune who should do what with which equipment — there are hints that the U.S. Air Force’s new bomber program is popular and the increasingly expensive F-35 program is not.

“The [new] bomber is incredibly important to us,” says ...

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