{"id":68144,"date":"2024-06-17T19:40:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T19:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2024\/06\/17\/how-many-f-35s-to-buy-draft-defense-bills-disagree\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:09:06","slug":"how-many-f-35s-to-buy-draft-defense-bills-disagree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/air\/2024\/06\/17\/how-many-f-35s-to-buy-draft-defense-bills-disagree\/","title":{"rendered":"How many F-35s to buy? Draft defense bills disagree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2024\/06\/14\/congress-defense-fight-to-focus-on-pay-raises-total-military-spending\/\" target=\"_blank\">Senate\u2019s proposed National Defense Authorization Act<\/a> would leave the military\u2019s planned purchases of 68 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters in fiscal 2025 unchanged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chamber\u2019s draft NDAA, which members of the Senate Armed Services Committee unveiled Friday, represents the latest of three different approaches lawmakers are taking to F-35 purchases for next year, which must be reconciled at some point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2024\/03\/11\/us-air-force-budget-request-leans-toward-rd-trims-fighter-purchases\/\" target=\"_blank\">Air Force\u2019s FY25 budget proposal<\/a> requested money to buy 42 F-35As, and the Navy and Marine Corps budgets would buy 13 F-35Bs and 13 F-35Cs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/budget\/2024\/05\/13\/house-lawmakers-aim-to-cut-f-35-buy-as-patience-with-delays-wears-thin\/\" target=\"_blank\">House\u2019s version of the NDAA would drastically slash F-35 purchases<\/a>, cutting the initial order down to 58. That bill, which the House narrowly approved Friday, would then bar the Pentagon from accepting delivery of 10 of those remaining jets until it shows problems with the F-35 are fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the House\u2019s proposed defense appropriations bill, a separate piece of legislation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2024\/06\/04\/proposed-house-spending-bill-would-add-more-f-35s\/\" target=\"_blank\">would add eight more F-35s<\/a> \u2014 two F-35A and six F-35C jets \u2014 for a total of 76 new fighters in FY25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House Armed Services Committee staffers said members of the panel \u201chave grown frustrated with the F-35 program,\u201d most recently with the delayed Technology Refresh 3 upgrades. The TR-3 hardware and software upgrades, which will give the F-35 better displays, computer memory and processing power, are now about a year overdue, and the military has refused to accept delivery of the newest jets since July 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This led the committee to propose cutting F-35 purchases in the House NDAA and reinvesting the roughly $1 billion that would save to ensure the jets work properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate NDAA would also grant the Air Force\u2019s request to retire 56 A-10 Warthog attack planes, 65 older F-15C and F-15D Eagle fighters, and 11 F-16 Fighting Falcons. 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The service therefore wants to retire them to free up money for other priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the Senate NDAA would require the Air Force to hold onto 16 E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system aircraft until they can be replaced by the Boeing-made E-7, or until the service can retire the E-3s without causing a capability gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate NDAA would also add money for the Air Force to buy five more HH-60W combat rescue helicopters, while reducing funding for the Survivable Airborne Operations Center \u201cdoomsday plane\u201d and the VC-25B Air Force One due to contract delays. 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