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~500 of them have been to the US so far, more than 2000 still planned for the US alone. The US has 4 of the top 7 largest air forces in the world. 1. US Airfo

• knubie 3y ago
  That's interesting, I always thought the Navy was #2.
  • jandrewrogers 3y ago
    The US Army has thousands of helicopters, which count as aircraft. They have a limited inventory of fixed-wing aircraft. Only about a thousand of those helicopters are combat systems (almost entirely AH-64 Apache), there are a few thousand utility and transport helicopters that exist for quickly moving troops and equipment. I always find the absolute numbers of US military systems surprising, particularly considering that they are largely state-of-the-art and continuously upgraded. US equipment inventories are vast, since they were originally trying to maintain parity with Soviet numbers. The situation in Ukraine suggests that the exchange rate is not anything like 1:1 but the equipment is a sunk cost at this point.