tflash Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 Maybe the problem is the maintainers? Retiring a type entirely means saving on maintainers, who can be redirected to F-35 ? They wanted to do the same with A-10C, but then everytime they propose to retire an old airframe some nostalgia sets in! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudikoff Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 (edited) There's only 230 or so F-15C Airframes w/ 130 or so being ANG, and 100 or so being USAF. and Not all of them are being upgraded, the Younger Airframes likely will be upgraded to last the next 3 years + retirement/transition time. Easily Filled by the Younger 170 or so F-22As and 1100+ F-16s. Yeah, sorry, I only had access to the excerpt of that Aviation Week article. From another article, I see that it concerns about six ANG and three active-duty squadrons, not the whole fleet. The article continues on how it makes sense from the homeland defense perspective, especially as the F-35 starts replacing the F-16's in active-duty squadrons, freeing those for the ANG. Edited April 6, 2017 by Dudikoff i386DX40@42 MHz w/i387 CP, 4 MB RAM (8*512 kB), Trident 8900C 1 MB w/16-bit RAMDAC ISA, Quantum 340 MB UDMA33, SB 16, DOS 6.22 w/QEMM + Win3.11CE, Quickshot 1btn 2axis, Numpad as hat. 2 FPH on a good day, 1 FPH avg. DISCLAIMER: My posts are still absolutely useless. Just finding excuses not to learn the F-14 (HB's Swansong?). Annoyed by my posts? Please consider donating. Once the target sum is reached, I'll be off to somewhere nice I promise not to post from. I'd buy that for a dollar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweep Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 six ANG and three active-duty squadrons Isn't that the whole operational fleet though? Lord of Salt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tflash Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 More to read in Aviation week: http://aviationweek.com/defense/can-usaf-afford-retire-f-15-cd-eagle [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frixon28 Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 http://www.defensenews.com/articles/air-force-chief-undecided-about-f-15-eagle-retirement New news about what is going on the Air Force. Nothing much really being said here but it still an interesting read for everyone I thought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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