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Making sense of recommended reductions to USAFs plan to buy fighters.
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Jen DiMascio, Steve Trimble, Brian Everstine

Aviation Week editors make sense of recommended reductions to the number of F-35 and F-15EX fighters the U.S. Air Force plan to buy in the coming years.
 
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