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Title

  • Alternatives for modernizing U.S. fighter forces

Summary

  • The United States Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps have long maintained tactical fighter forces that provide capabilities for air-to-air combat and air-to-ground attack. The three services are in the process of replacing the bulk of today's fighter aircraft, most of which were purchased in the 1980s, with new F/A-18E/F, F-22, and F-35 (Joint Strike Fighter) aircraft. Although current procurement plans call for the purchase of about 2,500 aircraft over the next 25 years, the services are projecting that those purchases will not keep pace with the need to retire today's aircraft as they reach the limit of their service life. The study also compares the advantages, disadvantages, and costs of seven alternative approaches that DoD might adopt to modernize its fighter forces -- three that satisfy today's inventory requirements, two that maintain aggregate weapons capacity with fewer aircraft, and two that replace portions of the fighter force with longer-range aircraft. In keeping with CBO's mandate to provide objective, impartial analysis, this study makes no recommendations.

Names

  • Arthur, David (David Alan)
  • Eveker, Kevin
  • United States. Congressional Budget Office

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Congressional Budget Office : [2009]
  • For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, [2009]

Headings

  • -  United States.--Air Force--Procurement
  • -  United States.--Marine Corps--Procurement
  • -  United States.--Navy--Procurement
  • -  F-35 (Military aircraft)
  • -  F-22 (Jet fighter plane)
  • -  Fighter planes--United States
  • -  X-32 (Jet fighter plane)

Notes

  • -  "David Arthur and Kevin Eveker of CBO's National Security Division prepared this study ..."--Pref.
  • -  "May 2009."
  • -  Shipping list numbers: 2009-0337-P.
  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (xxii, 48 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

  • UG633.2

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2023692962

Reproduction Number

  • 052-070-07554-6

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Arthur, David, Kevin Eveker, and United States Congressional Budget Office. Alternatives for modernizing U.S. fighter forces. [Washington, D.C.: Congressional Budget Office: For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2009] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023692962/.

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Arthur, D., Eveker, K. & United States Congressional Budget Office. (2009) Alternatives for modernizing U.S. fighter forces. [Washington, D.C.: Congressional Budget Office: For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023692962/.

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Arthur, David, Kevin Eveker, and United States Congressional Budget Office. Alternatives for modernizing U.S. fighter forces. [Washington, D.C.: Congressional Budget Office: For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2009] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2023692962/>.