The American military dependence on air power began with the Army using Curtiss “Jenny” biplanes in the Pancho Villa expedition, to overfly and report on Pancho Villa’s forces. In World War 1 American pilots flew over the trenches and dueled German aircraft, the Americans mostly in French-built SPAD biplanes. But the United States air power came into its own in World War 2 when American aircraft capabilities exploded; we launched fleets of bombers to reduce the war capacities of the Axis powers to rubble and ruin, and protected those bombers with fighter aircraft that were, by the end of the war, unmatched.
That tradition is continuing. On Friday, in the Oval Office, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth revealed plans for the United States’ next-generation fighter, the F-47.
The Next Generation of Air Dominance sends a very direct and clear message to our allies…
