The mission-capable rate for the Navy's F/A-18s was under 50 percent in August, Defense News reported.
Defense One: Mattis orders fighter jet readiness to jump to 80 percent — in one year
WASHINGTON — Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has ordered the Air Force and Navy to get mission capable rates for four key tactical aircraft up above 80 percent by the end of next September, a daunting challenge given the current readiness rates of America’s fighter fleets.
In a memo issued Sept. 17 to the secretaries of the Army, Air Force and Navy, along with acquisition head Ellen Lord and acting Undersecretary for Personnel and Readiness Stephanie Barna, Mattis acknowledges “budget constraints and shortfalls in aviation squadrons across the force” have led to “systemic underperformance, overcapitalization and unrealized capacity” in the fighter fleets.
“For change to be effective and efficient, we must focus on meeting our most critical priorities first,” Mattis wrote in the memo, obtained exclusively by Defense News.
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Update: Jim Mattis says key fighter jets must be fit to fly 80 percent of the time (Washington Examiner)
WNU Editor: This 80% goal is in sharp contrast to the current mission capable percentage ....
.... Bringing the mission-capable rates to 80 percent will be more difficult for some planes than others. As of March, the rate for the F-16C fleet was 70.22 percent, while the F-35A and F-22 came in at 54.67 and 49.01 percent, respectively, Defense News reported. The rate for the Navy's F/A-18s was under 50 percent in August, the publication added.
3 comments:
You want 80% readiness? Then you gotta, "show me the money".
wew lad. I want us to be at this level, but this might be one of those Pentagon Pipedreams.
It's a good thing all of our enemies are 49% readiness.
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