Originally published at: Air Force Selects Up To 131 T-7As For Sheppard AFB
The Red Hawks are scheduled to begin replacing the base’s T-38Cs in 2034.
Wow such exciting news, something that may happen 8 years hence in the USAF.
AND it only took ten years of development to get to this point. It will be old technology by the time it actually gets to line pilots. DoD / DoW acquisition programs are our own worst enemy.
Exactly. The T-7 prototype first flew in 2016. It will be almost 20 years until in enters service in significant numbers. In 1939, when the Army Air Corps was flying Stearmans, it would be 20 years until the T-38 flew…
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