The Air Force's future budget plans, which it released last year, included proposals to buy 42 F-35As in 2026, 47 apiece in 2027 and 2028, and 48 in 2029. The service eventually wants to buy a ...

Deep cuts to the Air Force’s F-35 program and the elimination of the E-7 Wedgetail program would prove a “costly and strategic blunder” for the service, a retired three-star general said ...

Buying 24 F-35As, along with 21 F-15EX fighters also budgeted in the Pentagon’s plan, would leave the Air Force far short of that goal in 2026. The Air Force’s future budget plans, which it ...