هذا الكلام لا علاقة له بالواقع على الاطلاق .. الاف 15 ستدخل لسد الفجوة التي سيخلقها خروج بعض الاف 15 سي من الخدمة كبديل رخيص الثمن واسرع في التسليم من الاف 35 التي تم تسليم اعداد منها اقل من المخطط
USAF Chief of Staff Gen David Goldfein said: “When we stopped [producing] the F-22, the plan was to put that money into an accelerated plan for the F-35. If that plan had been executed at the time we canceled the F-22, I should have 1,100 F-35s on the ramp today. I have less than 300. So I’ve got four fourth-generation [aircraft types] that are part of the inventory that I’ve got to maintain into the 2030s to keep the capacity I need to be able to meet combatant commander requirements. One’s not going to make it, and that’s the F-15C.”
The first F-15EX on the production line in S
Louis. Boeing/USAF Photo
“The only option that was available [and] was an affordable option was to leverage the hot line that currently exists — that has investment from both Saudi Arabia and Qatar — that allows me to put an F-15EX in the same hangar, use the same support equipment, have a local checkout for both maintainers and operators, and do it on a timeline that I can maintain the capacity I need,” said Goldfein. “So the F-15EX is to solve only one challenge I have and that is that the F-15Cs are not going to continue flying and I have to have that capacity. I’m not willing to put a nickel of F-35 money into the F-15EX — this is not a trade-off, this is capacity I need to fulfill a shortfall that’s staring me in the face.