While Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said his service would still look to cut legacy platforms in its forthcoming fiscal year 2023 budget request, he hinted the document won't include "the same scale of requested retirements" tied to those aircraft compared with the service's FY-22 ask. Still Kendall, who has spoken out repeatedly about the need for Congress to green-light requested divestments, continued to beat the drum on the Air Force’s directive “to balance current with future needs” across its...
