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Aging Air Force wants big bucks fix
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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Feb 18, 2008 07:41pm |
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| Category | News |
| News Date | Tuesday, February 19, 2008 01:40:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Honolulu Advertiser
Air Force officials are warning that unless their budget is increased dramatically, and soon, the military's high-flying branch won't dominate the skies as it has for decades.
After more than seven years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Air Force's aging jet fighters, bombers, cargo aircraft and gunships are at the breaking point, they say, and expensive, ultramodern replacements are needed fast.
"What we've done is put the requirement on the table that says, 'If we're going to do the missions you're going to ask us to do, it will require this kind of investment,'" Maj. Gen. Paul Selva, the Air Force's director of strategic planning, said in an interview with The Associated Press.
"Failing that, we take what is already a geriatric Air Force," Selva said, "and we drive it for another 20 years into an area of uncertainty." |
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