The Air Force Wants 80 'New' F-15X Fighters. What About the F-35? | The National Interest

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The Air Force Wants 80 'New' F-15X Fighters. What About the F-35? | The National Interest: Confused?  

After more than a decade and billions spent developing the consistently troubled F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Air Force is eyeing a new variant of the F-15 — much to lawmakers' dismay.

The Air Force's fiscal year 2020 budget request will likely include an ask for eight of Boeing's new F-15X variant, Bloomberg News  reports, the first installment of an 80-plane buy for the next five years............


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