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Pentagon Shocked: Russia Developing Planes ‘Faster Than Anticipated’
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Pentagon Shocked: Russia Developing Planes ‘Faster Than Anticipated’
Russia’s efforts aimed at upgrading its Air Force have largely come as a surprise to many in the US Department of Defense. So much so that the Pentagon is looking at ways to reboot its terminated Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program that produced the much vaunted Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.
The DoD and “the Congress made a decision that we would not see a near-peer threat within a number of years, and that decision, that judgment also proved to be optimistic,” Lt. Gen. James Holmes, Air Force deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and requirements, told the US Senate Armed Services Committee.
“We’ve seen both Russia and China develop airplanes much faster than was anticipated,” he added at a hearing held on March 8.
A total of 187 Raptors were produced between 1996 and 2011. The Pentagon is unlikely to order more F-22s, but the agency could well consider upgrading existing fifth-generation stealth tactical fighters…..more here
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