Only Half Of The U.S. Air Force’s F-22 Raptors Are ‘Combat Effective’

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Only Half Of The U.S. Air Force’s F-22 Raptors Are ‘Combat Effective’

ByBrent M. EastwoodPublished9 hours ago
 
F-22 Raptors and Many Other Planes Have Readiness Issues: This new study will get on the Pentagon’s nerves. The U.S. General Accountability Office (GAO) has provided a stinging set of findings that will alarm military personnel in aviation branches and wake up Congress. Simply put, many American airplanes are not ready to fly in a mission-capable fashion. They are likely grounded due to maintenance problems, lack of spare parts, or just general wear and tear. One statistic jumps out from the report. If you take the Air Force’s 186 F-22s in service, only 93 are currently combat effective.

Eight Airplanes Are Not Ready to Meet Their Mission Sets

Titled “Actions Needed to Address Persistent Sustainment Risks,” the report looked at eight Air Force and Navy airplanes, including bombers, fighters, tankers, and reconnaissance aircraft. It devised a metric called “Mission Capable Rates,” which explicated maintenance health and readiness rates for the airplanes. The GAO compared the years 2015 to 2021 and set up a readiness goal in percentage terms for its airplane. “Readiness” means that that the airplane “has a status in which an aircraft type can conduct at least one – and potentially all – of its assigned missions.”

Eight Airplanes Were Given A Bad Report Card
 
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/07/only-half-of-the-u-s-air-forces-f-22-raptors-are-combat-effective/

[Smokin Joe]

All these globalists seem to have the same eventual goal--to render the US powerless.

Mr Bush's wars sure put a lot of wear and tear on airframes and the long term 'benefits' of that are beginning to show.  Granted, the Raptor wasn't a big number in those, but money is fungible, and the others in theater had to be maintained, as well as the emphasis on the F35.