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David Axe, National Interest: The U.S. Air Force’s F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighters Have a Problem
Air Force stealth fighters won’t meet the 80-percent readiness goal that former defense secretary Jim Mattis decreed before quitting the Defense Department.
The U.S. Air Force’s F-22 Raptor stealth fighters won’t meet the 80-percent readiness goal that former defense secretary Jim Mattis decreed before quitting the Defense Department in protest of Pres. Donald Trump’s foreign policy in January 2019.
Mattis had mandated all Air Force, U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps F-15, F-16, F/A-18, F-22 and F-35 squadrons to achieve an 80-percent mission-capable rate by the end of September 2019.
In March 2019 then-Air Force secretary Heather Wilson warned that the 186-strong F-22 force might fall short of the readiness goal. Three months later Air Force brigadier general Heath Collins, the service's program executive officer for fighters and bombers, made it official.
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4 comments:
Well in fairness the fleet did take a hit from a hurricane last year.
In fairness there has been criticism that the Air Force brass allowed those planes to be destroyed. They could have trucked those planes out of the path of the hurricane.
They chose not to.
I don't know the details, I admit, but to me it looked like a big fuck up. Equipment like this, with a price tag like this, needs to be bettet protected it seems. But perhaps the situation developed too quickly. .it may not have been incompetence. .but it sure looks like it but I wasn't there ;)
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