The death toll for rising aviation accidents: 133 troops killed in five years

Through a six-month investigation, the Military Times found that accidents involving all of the military’s manned fighter, bomber, helicopter and cargo warplanes rose nearly 40 percent from fiscal years 2013 to 2017. It’s doubled for some aircraft, like the Navy and Marine Corps’ F/A-18 Hornets and Super Hornets. At least 133 service members were killed in those fiscal year 2013-2017 mishaps, according to data obtained by Military Times.
The rise is tied, in part, to the massive congressional budget cuts of 2013. Since then, it’s been intensified by non-stop deployments of warplanes and their crews, an exodus of maintenance personnel and deep cuts to pilots’ flight-training hours.

An extensive work with a searchable data base here

Analysis by corps:
Marines

Air Force

Navy

Source:
Military Times.com

Don’t forget the specified need to sustain a 6 month air campaign where losses will have to be accounted to size the fleet. Airframe less susceptible to bring the highest probability of mission success (inability, failure and losses) will rapidly prove to lead to a more expensive buy (nbr or airframe, support, sustainement and the inherent logistical burden of having a larger fleet).
Stealth is a force multiplier on its own. We have already seen the results of that effect’s in other tender.

As stated numerously before, a swarm of B could well be the most cost-effective force structure for the future SwAF restructured around a single base.

don’t forget that CAP involves contact identification that led to acceleration before returning on station (see for exemple the IAF’s RFI that was released today). A heavily laden small jet will have its fuel consumption increased compaired to one with a lighter load or flying without any EFT at all.
Design philosophy of air superiority fighters are not identical with that of ground attack mission were EFT is an acceptable means to increase range (cruise)

Except that they will have to switch from sharing fleet support from the USMC to the USAF. This might induce some changes in planning priorities (the USAF is a big buyer with a higher rate when inducting modernization programs).

9 Rafale for 2017 (in total)

Falcon will be down by 25% in 2018 (with a constant amount in value ). You can find this in the statement of Dassault CEO during board meeting.

That’s all the number we know. Ramp-up, yes, this is a fair supposition but how much, nothing clear went out.

So, if Hallow suggests that he was told something beyond that legal statement, that would be quite interesting.

done.