{"id":118178,"date":"2024-08-31T19:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-combat-aircraft-fleet-2030\/"},"modified":"2024-08-31T19:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T09:00:12","slug":"what-will-the-us-air-force-combat-aircraft-fleet-look-like-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=118178","title":{"rendered":"What Will The US Air Force Combat Aircraft Fleet Look Like By 2030?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    What will the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/us-air-force\/\">US Air Force<\/a> look like in 2030 (barring a major war or significant change in planning)? The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-fleet-shrinking-or-growing\/\">US Air Force will certainly be smaller<\/a>, have many more unmanned systems, and be much more technologically advanced. Predicting the future is something of a fool&#8217;s errand, but the trends in the Air Force are clear. By 2030, 4.5th and <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fifth-generation-fighter\/\">5th generation<\/a> combat aircraft will make up a much larger percentage of the overall fleet.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force will be smaller in 2030 with more unmanned platforms, more 5th-gen fighters, and possibly the first 6th-gen fighters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12160,396,397,628,412,240,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6th-generation-fighter-jet","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-north-america","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118179,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118178\/revisions\/118179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}