The Pentagon's No. 2 official today said the Defense Department plans to replace any F-15s found to be structurally unfit with multirole F-35 Joint Strike Fighters rather than F-22A Raptors, which originally were designed to assume the F-15s' air superiority mission for the Air Force. Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England's statement to the Senate Budget Committee today appears to run against the grain of both Air Force modernization plans and arguments advanced in recent weeks by F-22A proponents who have...
