USAF to
request funding for light-attack aircraft experimentation
Daniel
Wasserbly, Washington, DC - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
24 February
2017
The US Air
Force (USAF) plans to request a new exercise, to be bankrolled in a fiscal year
2017 (FY 2017) supplemental budget, that will explore potential light-attack
aircraft solutions, General David Goldfein, USAF chief of staff, said during 23
February remarks at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.
He said such
a platform would have to be responsive, expeditionary, and networked into the
USAF's wider family of systems.
USAF
officials have long considered a concept of fielding less expensive
light-attack fighter aircraft for counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism
operations, in part to preserve higher-end fighters for other roles.
John McCain,
chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in January unveiled a proposal
that would dramatically increase national defence spending over the next five
years and recommended that the USAF "procure 300 low-cost, light-attack
fighters that would require minimal work to develop".
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