Take 183 F-22A Raptors and subtract 57 for training, attrition reserve, etc. and you get seven squadrons of 18 fighters—or vice versa. “Seven squadrons is what we can field with the 183 [Raptors] that came out of the QDR,” Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne told the Senate Armed Services Committee. He was explaining to Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) the Air Force’s new math that reduces the current standard size for a fighter squadron from 24 to 18. It’s of some concern to Warner because, as he said, taxpayers had funded military construction at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia for “earlier projections” by the Air Force. Warner said that he was not certain the new size would “fully utilize that infrastructure to justify it from the taxpayer’s standpoint.”
Boeing Claims Progress on T-7 and Other Challenged Programs
April 25, 2025
Boeing appears to have become to overcome the problems that led to billions in losses on fixed-price defense contracts in recent years, point the company back toward profitabily, says Boeing president and CEO Kelly Ortberg.