{"id":34084,"date":"2017-02-08T21:08:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T21:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/02\/08\/top-marine-corps-aviator-wants-f-35bs-faster-than-planned\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:31:58","slug":"top-marine-corps-aviator-wants-f-35bs-faster-than-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/2017\/02\/08\/top-marine-corps-aviator-wants-f-35bs-faster-than-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Marine Corps aviator wants F-35Bs faster than planned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Marine Corps&#8217; top aviator is hungry for more F-35Bs, telling reporters on Wednesday that he would like to see the service&#8217;s buy rate increase to 37 jets per year.<br\/><br\/> That would almost double the planned rate of F-35B procurement over the next few years, which is projected to sit at 20 aircraft per year from fiscal years 2018 to 2021.<br\/><br\/> &#8220;We have the infrastructure in place,&#8221; said Lt. Gen. Jon Davis, deputy commandant for aviation. &#8220;Bottom line is we&#8217;ve had a very anemic ramp, so we&#8217;ve been holding onto the older airplanes longer. If asked by the American people to get the airplanes faster, I guarantee we&#8217;d put them into play very, very quickly.<br\/><br\/> &#8220;We&#8217;d transition squadrons faster is what we&#8217;d do,&#8221; he said, adding that if the service were allowed to purchase 37 B-variants a year, it would be able to retire its legacy F\/A-18 Hornet and Harrier planes by 2026. <br\/><br\/> The Marine Corps currently owns about 50 F-35Bs in test, training and operations squadrons, and is gradually making the shift from Hornets and Harriers to F-35s, Davis said. In January, it relocated 10 F-35Bs from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 121 from Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Yuma, Arizona to MCAS Iwakuni, Japan \u2014 marking the first international deployment of the short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing version.<br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next up, a Hornet squadron \u2014 VMFA 122 from MCAS Beaufort, South Carolina\u00ad \u2014 will transition to an F-35B squadron based at MCAS Yuma. Following that, another F-18 squadron, VMFA 314, will become the Marine Corps\u2019 first F-35C squadron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Davis\u2019 comments on the F-35 echo a similar debate in the Air Force about the optimal pace of joint strike fighter purchases, and how demand for the fifth-generation fighter can be balanced with other priorities. Last summer, Air Force Gen. Herbert &#8220;Hawk&#8221; Carlisle, the outgoing head of Air Combat Command, \u00a0told reporters that he would like to see yearly F-35A procurement by the Air Force increase to 60 planes as quickly as possible. Currently, the service is set to buy about 40 planes per year until 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a breakfast event Tuesday, the Air Force chief of staff said that he would like to see faster F-35 acquisition, but questioned whether it would be the service\u2019s top budget priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The more F-35s that we could actually procure in the shortest period of time to be able to reduce the aircraft age and be able to get more heavily into the fifth-generation business is clearly a priority,&#8221; Gen. David Goldfein said. &#8220;Is it the number one place that I would spend dollars? That\u2019s going to be a department-level discussion.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. Gen. 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