Air Force obligated to keep aging planes
The USAF estimates it will spend close to $1.6 billion over the next five years to maintain aircraft it does not want.
The service would like to retire 1,033 of its 6,100 aircraft in the next five years. But more than a third of those must remain in service because of the protections by Congress.
The lawmakers want to keep the aircraft around as retiring them will make their districts suffer.
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