WASHINGTON — The Air Force is preparing to declare its T-7 Red Hawk training jet ready for production in days, following years of delays, an Air Force official overseeing the program told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview.
The T-7 will train new generations of fighter and bomber pilots as it replaces the Air Force’s aging T-38 Talon, which entered service in 1961. But the production decision, also known as Milestone C, comes over two years later than initially projected, due both to design woes at Boeing and a service strategy to accelerate the program, as Breaking Defense previously reported.
“Milestone C is monumental,” Rodney Stevens, the Air Force’s program executive officer for training, said. “Essentially, what we’re saying is, we’re…
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