{"id":310333,"date":"2025-11-02T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usaf-targets-more-combat-jets-next-decade\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T05:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:00:17","slug":"usaf-targets-over-20-combat-jet-fleet-growth-in-the-next-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=310333","title":{"rendered":"USAF Targets Over 20% Combat Jet Fleet Growth In The Next Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new, congressionally-mandated <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> fighter aircraft plan, one which was first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2025\/10\/air-force-needs-hundreds-more-fighters-service-says\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Breaking Defense<\/a>, calls for the dramatic expansion of the Air Force&#8217;s fleet to 1,558 combat-coded jets within a decade. This marks a shift of roughly 300 more over the estimated inventory of 1,271, which was reported for 2026. This unclassified report outlines higher procurement of Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II and Boeing F-15EX Eagle II jets, all while emphasizing the next-generation capabilities of future programs like the F-47.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The service is looking to expand its air combat capabilities.<\/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":[396,628,412,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310333","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=310333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310334,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310333\/revisions\/310334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}