Posted on 01/11/2022 9:51:42 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
It’s not a problem it’s a feature
Covid is simply revealing America’s bloated, over-controlled, dysfunctional government, massive debt - and our national de-population.
Air Force fighter/attack aircraft flew an average of about 200 hours per year in 2000, gradually declining to about 125 hours per year on average.
They’ll fly a lot more once they are all electric.../s
Having worked at companies that supplied repair and maintenance spares, I can attest spares and repair parts are the first things that get cancelled whenever a Democrat comes into office. The move the money into other things.
When Bush II was elected his office called all the CEO’s directly and asked them to go to 24 hour shifts. They said they’d talk price when Bush actually got into office. Bush came through and paid the bills. It is now against the law to build anything the military has not previously approved.
Doesn’t matter, as the current regime doesn’t have the will to fight or any recognition of America’s external enemies.
The older airframes seem generally more dependable. They don’t make ‘em like they useta!
Get woke, lose wars.
Eh. As long as the USAF personnel are getting the proper attitude adjustments, i.e. seeing straight white Americans as enemies, this is all just fine. Priorities matter.
I don’t know about that. There are a lot of ‘bent & cracked’ airframes that are red lined below their designed g-limits (among those older aircraft). That’s why the USAF is buying more F-15’s to replace the old F-15C’s. It’s an affordable stopgap solution to keep the available airframes from cratering.
I was thinking more of the Herc and BUFF in their various configurations, but you’re right - the higher-G airframes take a beating.
“Air Force fighter/attack aircraft flew an average of about 200 hours per year in 2000, gradually declining to about 125 hours per year on average”
These numbers seem very low. Question for some of the FR experts. If we get in a war and need to fly nightly sorties, are our planes capable of thousands of hours of flight time per year?
Exactly - aircraft availability is directly proportional the the service’s budget and major expenses for new toys (like the useless F-35).
If we get in a war and need to fly nightly sorties, are our planes capable of thousands of hours of flight time per year?
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They could be, but they still won’t fly because there will be no supporting budgets, maintenance or spare parts availability. Funds will be drained off to support important woke causes and social justice issues.
When I was in Air Force aircraft maintenance we could fix damn near anything at the home base level, IF we had the parts.
Yeah... the big bodies just seem to last forever.
My USAF friends said they are spending lots of time, money, and effort going to gender and sex lectures, etc. So at least we are dong that right!
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