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Get more F-35s in the air and don't break the bank, senators beg USAF chief nominee
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Get more F-35s in the air and don't break the bank, senators beg USAF chief nominee
Gen. Wilsbach declined to endorse the service’s ongoing reorganization to counter China.
Thomas Novelly | October 9, 2025 04:18 PM ET
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You need to fix alarming mission-capability rates and rising sustainment costs for the Air Force’s F-35A fighter jet, senators told the service’s chief-of-staff nominee on Thursday.

“The F-35 remains the most advanced fighter in the world, but too many of them are sitting idle on ramps. The readiness rates of our aircraft continue to fall short of Pentagon goals. This is known on this side of the ocean and around the world,” Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, said during Thursday’s hearing. “The Air Force cannot protect power if its most advanced fighter cannot get off the ground.”

The warning was directed at Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, the former head of Air Combat Command and Pacific Air Forces, who was nominated last month to serve as the service’s top uniformed leader. The current Air Force chief of staff, Gen. David Allvin, unexpectedly announced in August that he would retire, effective in November, after his ties to a massive reorganization effort focused on China seemingly broke with the Pentagon’s renewed homeland focus.

Wilsbach was not questioned by lawmakers about Allvin’s sudden departure and was not heavily grilled on the Trump administration’s domestic deployment of the National Guard or ongoing military actions against alleged drug-runners. Senators mainly focused on technical problems facing the Air Force—and in particular, the F-35’s parts and maintenance problems.

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/10/senators-beg-air-force-chief-staff-nominee-fix-f-35s-mission-capable-rates-costs/408727/?oref=d1-homepage-top-story
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Re: Get more F-35s in the air and don't break the bank, senators beg USAF chief nominee
« Reply #1 on: Today at 01:53:11 pm »
Ever wonder how the military gets so f*cked up?  Just let politicians get involved! :3:
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Re: Get more F-35s in the air and don't break the bank, senators beg USAF chief nominee
« Reply #2 on: Today at 02:21:13 pm »
Another great procurement job, Pentagon.   *****rollingeyes*****

BTW, was 'flying' one of the specifications?  Or is it just a wicked expensive lawn gnome?
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Re: Get more F-35s in the air and don't break the bank, senators beg USAF chief nominee
« Reply #3 on: Today at 03:12:46 pm »
Quote from: rangerrebew on Today at 01:53:11 pm
Ever wonder how the military gets so f*cked up?  Just let politicians get involved!

The F-35 is a plane designed to drop bombs, but as the USAF would have it, a committee jumped in and changed the mission and the design, sending the price per plane soaring. So of course nothing works as it should, and reliability becomes just a word.
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Re: Get more F-35s in the air and don't break the bank, senators beg USAF chief nominee
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The F-35 is a plane designed to drop bombs, but as the USAF would have it, a committee jumped in and changed the mission and the design, sending the price per plane soaring. So of course nothing works as it should, and reliability becomes just a word.
It's the same sort of crap Hitler did (thankfully) to the Me 262.
No plane can be everything to everyone.
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Re: Get more F-35s in the air and don't break the bank, senators beg USAF chief nominee
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Quote from: Smokin Joe on Today at 03:19:14 pm
It's the same sort of crap Hitler did (thankfully) to the Me 262.
No plane can be everything to everyone.

Yep...the first time that Hitler saw the Me 262, he told Goring that this was his new "blitz bomber."

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Re: Get more F-35s in the air and don't break the bank, senators beg USAF chief nominee
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Yep...the first time that Hitler saw the Me 262, he told Goring that this was his new "blitz bomber."

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...in 1941
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