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USAF abandons 80% mission capability rate goals set for F-22, F-35 and F-16
« on: May 14, 2020, 11:11:36 am »
USAF abandons 80% mission capability rate goals set for F-22, F-35 and F-16
 
13 May 2020
By: Sandy Milne

The US Air Force has formally given up on attempts to increase mission capability rates across its fighter jet fleet. The Office of the Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, announced late last week that the F-16, F-22, F-35 variants had all failed to meet the 80 per cent target and that the initiative is no longer a requirement for fiscal year 2020.

In line with a September 2018 order from then-secretary of defense James Mattis, USAF officials have been pushing to increase the percentage up to a minimum of 80 per cent by the end of September 2019. At the time, Mattis announced that “budget constraints and shortfalls in aviation squadrons across the force” had led to “systemic underperformance, overcapitalisation and unrealised capacity” in the fighter fleets.

Mission capability rate refers to the proportion of a fleet that are prepared to carry out a mission on immediate notice. The USAF logs this figures on this rate annually, and recent publications record a slight drop in mission capability. For FY16 that number was 72.1 per cent; in FY17, 71.3 per cent.

https://www.defenceconnect.com.au/air-sea-lift/6086-usaf-abandons-80-mission-capability-rate-goals-set-for-f-22-f-35-and-f-16
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Re: USAF abandons 80% mission capability rate goals set for F-22, F-35 and F-16
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2020, 12:52:28 pm »
Lets see if I understand this...
We spent $350 million per f-22 and can achieve 68% reliability to replace an $11 million A-10?
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Re: USAF abandons 80% mission capability rate goals set for F-22, F-35 and F-16
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2020, 01:03:13 pm »
Quote from: EdinVA on May 14, 2020, 12:52:28 pm
Lets see if I understand this...
We spent $350 million per f-22 and can achieve 68% reliability to replace an $11 million A-10?
geezzz
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The USAF has been sucking hind tit on this for decades.  They have been trying to kill the A-10 forever.   They (the USAF brass) consider themselves way too awesome to do such a lowly mission as CAS, but they don’t want to hand it off to another force who might want it or do it better. 

There is no (zero, nada, absolutely none) good reason why the A10 program wasn’t handed off to the USMC decades ago.  You know... a branch that actually has a vested interest in CAS succeeding.
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Re: USAF abandons 80% mission capability rate goals set for F-22, F-35 and F-16
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2020, 01:35:28 pm »
Quote from: Axeslinger on May 14, 2020, 01:03:13 pm
@EdinVA
The USAF has been sucking hind tit on this for decades.  They have been trying to kill the A-10 forever.   They (the USAF brass) consider themselves way too awesome to do such a lowly mission as CAS, but they don’t want to hand it off to another force who might want it or do it better. 

There is no (zero, nada, absolutely none) good reason why the A10 program wasn’t handed off to the USMC decades ago.  You know... a branch that actually has a vested interest in CAS succeeding.
Well, if the AF is not careful, the other branches are going to take all of the missions away from the AF except the milk runs..
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