{"id":33402,"date":"2024-05-03T18:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T08:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-fleet-shrinking-or-growing\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T18:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T08:30:12","slug":"is-the-us-air-force-fleet-shrinking-or-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=33402","title":{"rendered":"Is The US Air Force Fleet Shrinking Or Growing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            The Department of Defense has submitted its <a href=\"https:\/\/comptroller.defense.gov\/Budget-Materials\/Budget2025\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >2025 Budget Request<\/a> and much can be learned from trawling through this long document, but one thing that stands out is that the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/us-air-force\/\">Air Force<\/a> is continuing to shrink. However, numbers do not tell the full picture; while the Air Force will be smaller, it will also be more modern and capable. It should also be noted that the document is a request &#8211; some of its proposals for divestment may be denied. On the surface, it may seem strange that Air Force numbers are falling in an era of great power competition.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Air Force buys more fifth and sixth-generation fighters, the number of aircraft in service continues to fall.<\/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":[1258,396,397,412,240,3509,1384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-military","category-north-america","category-retirement","category-us-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33402","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=33402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33404,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33402\/revisions\/33404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}