"I am going to fight to the death to protect the F-35 because I truly believe that the only way we will make it through the next decade is with a sufficient fleet of F-35s. If you gave me all the money I needed to refurbish the F-15 and the F-16 fleets, they would still become tactically obsolete by the middle of the next decade. Our adversaries are building fleets that will overmatch our legacy fleet.... I am fighting to the end, to the death, to keep the F-35 program on track. For me, that means not a single airplane cut from the program."-Gen. G. Michael Hostage III, head of Air Combat Command, Defense News, Feb. 3.
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机译：“为了保护F-35，我将为之奋斗，因为我坚信，在未来十年中，我们唯一要做的就是拥有足够的F-35机队。如果您给了我所有我需要的钱，为了翻新F-15和F-16机队，到下个十年中期，它们在战术上仍将过时。我们的对手正在建造将远远超过我们原有机队的机队...。死亡，以保持F-35计划的正常进行。对我而言，这意味着该计划不会削减任何一架飞机。” G. Michael Hostage III，《防务新闻》空战司令部负责人，2月3日。
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