Don't blame the empty suit. He is just doing his job.
In this case it is: show up and issue platitude.
We should worry about the future of the USAF:
Morin said that becoming smaller will allow the Air Force to be a high-quality and ready force, able to modernize and become more capable in the future. To do this, Air Force leaders are focused on three critical programs: the F-35 joint strike fighter, KC-46 tanker, and the long range strike bomber.
No. Sometimes becoming smaller is just that, and nothing more.
"High-quality" doesn't go with mentioning a tanker program that will probably be "OK"; a disaster in recapping fighters; and a half-billion dollar per-aircraft long range bomber-white elephant.
Fiscal disaster. Operational capability failure.
In the making.
"We are doing everything to keep them on track. As a result, we are not doing some other things we would like to do,"
Or maybe that last bit is the equal of a Vietnam War POW trying to put a duress message into the coerced propaganda statement.
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The LRS-B is the way to go, especially with the new Asia focus. F-35 / "FB-22" are range limited w/o massive tanker support, and bombers use the exact same precision strike weps that are used by tactical aircraft.
The F-22's demonstrated sub-sonic combat radius is more than that of the F-35A and more than the Threshold Specification for the F-35C carrier variant JSF.
Moreover, the F-22 can use external fuel tanks to effect while the range gained by the JSFs with external fuel doesn't warrant fitting them.
That the JSFs will be able to lift two full external fuel tanks with a full weapons load has yet to be demonstrated and is considered somewhat problematic.
Then there is the issue of what external fuel tanks are suitable for carriage by the JSFs and when, if ever, such tanks will be available and cleared for operations.
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