Cascading Issues Keeping Air Force, Navy Planes Grounded Watchdog Says
Howard Altman - Yesterday 6:42 PM
Years of overuse, a lack of adequately trained maintenance personnel, not enough parts, inadequate and often dangerous storage spaces, and, in some cases, a lack of access to critical systems has combined to keep billions of dollars of Air Force and Navy aircraft from flying. This is according to a scathing Government Accountability Office investigation into the readiness of eight military aviation airframes.
The latest GAO report to examine the U.S. military’s aviation fleet looked into the availability of Air Force F-22 Raptor fighters, B-1B Lancer bombers, C-5M Super Galaxy cargo planes, and KC-135 Stratotanker air refuelers, as well as Navy F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighters, P-8A Poseiden anti-submarine jets, C-130T Hercules cargo planes, and KC-130T Hercules air refuelers.
The findings, released Wednesday, were not pretty and followed an overall trend that has seen the ability of the U.S. military to keep its aircraft flying continuously deteriorate.
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