In this March 8, 2019, file photo, A logo of Huawei retail shop russian single engine jet fighter seen through a handrail inside a commercial office building in Beijing. From left, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. Angus King, I-Maine, and Ranking Member Jack Reed, D-R.

Pentagon budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 14, 2019. Air Force cyber security technicians with the 355th Communications Squadron review work orders at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Ariz. Orders of older warplanes surge as U. American-made fighter jets, once facing extinction, have seen a resurgence in sales, thanks largely to Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

Trump’s Pentagon budgets over the past two years have enabled the U. His fiscal 2020 budget plan calls for purchasing even more of those warplanes, plus a new variant of the F-15 for the Air Force, which has not purchased Eagles since 2001. Meanwhile, eastern European nations spooked by Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea are looking at the affordable F-16. Three years ago, just one U. Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a warplane being built for the U. Subscribe to the Defense One daily.