{"id":53973,"date":"2024-05-27T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/congress-block-f-22-retirement-what-will-us-air-force-do-with-jets\/"},"modified":"2024-05-27T02:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T16:00:12","slug":"now-that-congress-has-blocked-f-22-retirement-again-what-will-the-us-air-force-do-with-the-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=53973","title":{"rendered":"Now That Congress Has Blocked F-22 Retirement Again, What Will The US Air Force Do With The Jets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usaf-divestment-a-10-warthog\/\">US Air Force has asked to divest and retire around 250 aircraft for Fiscal Year 2025<\/a>. This includes many A-10 Warthogs, F-16s, and F-15s. But notably, the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-force\/\">Air Force<\/a> has once again asked to divest 32 Block 20 F-22 Raptors. However, once again, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/bill-blocks-us-air-force-f-22-retirements-271-million-buy-24-boeing-f-15ex\/\">Congress has moved to prohibit the Air Force from retiring dozens of the most advanced fifth-generation fighter jets<\/a>. Now, the question is, what will happen to the Air Force&#8217;s unwanted Block 20 Raptors?    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future of around 33 Block 20 F-22 Raptors appears in limbo as they are unsuitable for combat but also not being upgraded.<\/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":[1258,396,397,7786,412,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-f-22-raptor","category-military","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53973","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=53973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53974,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53973\/revisions\/53974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}