Tactical Combat Forces of the United States Air Force: Issues and Alternatives

Abstract

In the past few years, the Congress has restrained spending on tactical aircraft in the Air Force. These funding decisions, and similar ones that could be debated in the future, will have important effects on the Air Force's ability to expand the size of its tactical air forces while also modernizing those forces with new aircraft and retiring older planes. This analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) presents the effects of the Administration's current tactical aircraft plans on costs and modernization. It also presents alternatives to the Administration's plans. The results in this study, which was requested by the Defense Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, are preliminary and will be expanded in a subsequent publication. In keeping with CBO's mandate to provide objective analysis, the study contains no recommendations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA470269

Entities

Organizations

  • Congressional Budget Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Budgets
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Attrition
  • Combat Forces
  • Department Of Defense
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Force Structure
  • Military Budgets
  • Military Organizations
  • National Security
  • Procurement
  • Tactical Aircraft
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting