Raytheon announced the delivery of the 300th T-6A Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) at its Wichita, Ka., facility Tuesday. Brig. Gen. Gregory Feest, Air Education and Training Command’s deputy director of air, space, and information operations for flying training, accepted the aircraft, which is replacing USAF’s T-37 as the primary undergraduate pilot training aircraft. To date, the Air Force and Navy have ordered 418 aircraft, with 251 delivered to the Air Force and 49 to the Navy.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall doesn’t see great value in trying to break the Sentinel ICBM program off as a separate budget item the way the Navy has with its ballistic-missile submarine program, saying such a move wouldn’t create any new money for the Air Force to spend on other…