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I'm not in the military, never was, but I'd expect better performance in war time. You can tolerate a much much higher failure rate during peace time. It doesn'

I'm not in the military, never was, but I'd expect better performance in war time. You can tolerate a much much higher failure rate during peace time. It doesn't matter much if a training mission is aborted, the consequences are much lower.

selectodude 3y ago
Generally the things that pull the plane off the line aren't things that make them non-flightworthy. They'd be sending these planes on sorties if it wasn't peacetime.
- warner25 3y ago
  This cuts both ways. A lot more things need to be online in combat: avionics, sensors, weapons, survivability equipment, etc. At home, it didn't matter if the IFF transponder or satellite radio wasn't working. We didn't even have survivability equipment installed. In combat, though, any of those things makes an aircraft non-mission capable.
hylaride 3y ago
In peacetime you can ground your entire fleet of a type of aircraft when an issue is discovered (as has been done for almost every model of military plane flying at some point). In wartime you don't have that luxury and you need to go, go, go. If there was a war, none of the following groundings would have happened even if a very serious issue was discovered: * https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-f156nov06-story.html https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-f156nov06-story.html * https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2016/12/17/all-navy-f-a-18-e-f-super-hornets-growlers-grounded-after-incident-injuring-aircrew/ https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2016/12/17/all-navy... * https://www.airforce-technology.com/news/newsusaf-f-22-raptor-grounding-due-to-suspected-toxins-says-report/ https://www.airforce-technology.com/news/newsusaf-f-22-rapto... * https://www.forbes.com/sites/edwardsegal/2023/04/29/armys-decision-to-ground-apache-helicopters-provides-key-crisis-management-lessons/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/edwardsegal/2023/04/29/armys-de...

selectodude 3y ago

Generally the things that pull the plane off the line aren't things that make them non-flightworthy. They'd be sending these planes on sorties if it wasn't peacetime.

warner25 3y ago
This cuts both ways. A lot more things need to be online in combat: avionics, sensors, weapons, survivability equipment, etc. At home, it didn't matter if the IFF transponder or satellite radio wasn't working. We didn't even have survivability equipment installed. In combat, though, any of those things makes an aircraft non-mission capable.

hylaride 3y ago

In peacetime you can ground your entire fleet of a type of aircraft when an issue is discovered (as has been done for almost every model of military plane flying at some point). In wartime you don't have that luxury and you need to go, go, go. If there was a war, none of the following groundings would have happened even if a very serious issue was discovered: * https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-f156nov06-story.html https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-f156nov06-story.html * https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2016/12/17/all-navy-f-a-18-e-f-super-hornets-growlers-grounded-after-incident-injuring-aircrew/ https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2016/12/17/all-navy... * https://www.airforce-technology.com/news/newsusaf-f-22-raptor-grounding-due-to-suspected-toxins-says-report/ https://www.airforce-technology.com/news/newsusaf-f-22-rapto... * https://www.forbes.com/sites/edwardsegal/2023/04/29/armys-decision-to-ground-apache-helicopters-provides-key-crisis-management-lessons/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/edwardsegal/2023/04/29/armys-de...