Congressional Budget Office’s Plans to Save the Air Force

"With the termination of the F-22 fighter at just 187 copies, and delays to the follow-on F-35 (1,763 copies planned), the U.S. Air Force could be hundreds of fighters short of its 2,200-plane goal by the 2020s. The Congressional Budget Office proposes several options for reducing this “fighter gap”:

1) Accelerate F-35 production and purchase an extra 200 copies, at a cost of around $20 billion extra
2) Reduce F-35 production to 1,500 copies, and quickly buy 500 F-16Es, pictured, for an extra $10 billion or so

3) Cancel the F-35 and buy nearly 2,000 F-16Es, saving around $30 billion

4) Reduce F-35s to 900 and buy 1,000 MQ-9 armed drones, saving $30 billion"

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I pick 4