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> Barely half of US fighter planes are combat ready at any given moment. The trillion dollar F-35 had to be flown with VFR the first time it crossed the IDL. Wh
by Fjolsvith 8y ago
> Barely half of US fighter planes are combat ready at any given moment. The trillion dollar F-35 had to be flown with VFR the first time it crossed the IDL. Who knows what else is lurking in that software?
The US Air Force simply doesn't use it's full fleet at any given moment:
"For example, in 1969, 523 USAF fighter
aircraft were deployed to Vietnam or Thailand, only 14 percent of the 3,838 fighters in the USAF
inventory that year." [1]
1. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR2500/RR2500/RAND_RR2500.pdf https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/..., p.20