{"id":2411,"date":"2015-02-03T20:41:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T20:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2015-02-03T20:41:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T20:41:12","slug":"united-states-air-force-looking-to-turn-on-to-supersonic-mercenaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/united-states-air-force-looking-to-turn-on-to-supersonic-mercenaries\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Air Force looking to turn on to Supersonic Mercenaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the largest Air Force is dealing with more missions than ever before. In fact, they are calling in some military contractors to fly their jets. The US Air Force is being forced to consider recruiting air contractors due to the fact that they simply don\u2019t have enough crew and jets.<\/p>\n

Due to investments in highly expensive gear and budget cuts, the Air Force was forced to discard one of three so called Aggressor squadrons that fly front line jets like the F-15C or the F-16 that are painted in enemy colors and use enemy tactics.<\/p>\n

More than a half-dozen senior Air Force Officials say that the reason for the new initiative is Pure Desperation. One senior Air Force official said that the red air situation is one total mess. \u201cThere air Band Aid fixes being applied to areas around the community, but it\u2019s not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a sign of the system-wide stress that the Air Force is currently under. More than 10 years of war, combined with unwise investments in unsatisfactory stealth jets, has put the service in a bind. \u201cDemand for our services is way, way up. But we are meeting those demands today with the smallest Air Force in our history,\u201d Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James told reporters \u201cAnd when you couple that smaller force against the backdrop of austere budgets, and with the huge demand, what we have is we have a total force that is under significant strain.\u201d Most have said that the Air Force has little choice, the short answer was \u201cContractor-provided red air is overpriced and underwhelming, but at the end of the day there isn\u2019t much choice in utilizing it,\u201d The Air Force is still gathering pricing information regarding how much it would cost for contractors to fly approximately 180 training sorties over a two-week period later this year.<\/p>\n

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The contractors would have to operate supersonic \u201cfourth generation\u201d fighters similar to the F-15, F-16 or the Navy\u2019s F\/A-18 Hornet. The negotiated jets would have to be capable of reaching over Mach 1.0 and have to be equipped with:-<\/p>\n