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re: Pentagon’s $1.7T F-35 jets have ‘maintenance issues,’ finish missions barely half the time
Posted on 9/22/23 at 5:48 pm to UltimaParadox
Posted on 9/22/23 at 5:48 pm to UltimaParadox
Not the EX but yes some countries are getting a variant
Retired F-15E Crew Chief
Retired F-15E Crew Chief
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Posted on 9/22/23 at 5:52 pm to bad93ex
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Forgot all about the almighty Iraqi military
Fourth largest army in the world at the time.
Of course, the third largest was the Hare Krishnas and they already controlled all our airports.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 5:53 pm to LSUFANMICK
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Indonesia's defence ministry and U.S. planemaker Boeing (BA.N) have signed an agreement on the sale of 24 F-15EX fighter jets to help modernise the Southeast Asian country's ageing fleet, the ministry and the company said.
Reuters Source
Might be multiple variants of the "EX", some we don't sell?
Posted on 9/22/23 at 5:55 pm to TigerHornII
You know your shite.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 5:58 pm to Auburn1968
Okay, found a link to the last two weeks weather near Charleston and the worst was partly cloudy with low wind.
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/charleston-sc/historic
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/charleston-sc/historic
Posted on 9/22/23 at 6:07 pm to HeadSlash
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The GAO report also showed the $100-million-apiece F-35s are capable of performing missions just 55% of the time, and more than 10,000 of the aircraft have been grounded for repairs.
Well less than 1000 have been built, so this is wrong. Unless each plane is averaging over 10 groundings each.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 6:23 pm to slackster
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The article is worded very poorly.
It's still a shitty excuse for a warplane.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 6:47 pm to Darth_Vader
F-22 is just too good at what it does. Nothing can even compete with it 
Posted on 9/22/23 at 6:57 pm to member12
I bet I know the fix, more money
Posted on 9/22/23 at 7:00 pm to Auburn1968
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Local residents said their wasn't any bad weather, just blue skies. Anyone got a way to call up weather reports from then? Or better yet, recorded radar?
Local residents are dumb.
Historical radar data
Posted on 9/22/23 at 7:20 pm to member12
Keeping military jets flying is costly and maintenance intensive. This article is basically clickbait.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:52 pm to Darth_Vader
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Remember they discontinued production of the best fighter in the world…
Ummm, that would have been Congress that killed production of the F-22. The AF intended to keep purchasing them to fully replace the F-15C fleet. As a matter of fact, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force was fired for trying to stand up to the Secretary of the Air Force over this. The SECAF, SECDEF, and Congress were Hell bent on buying more ISR science projects for the counter-IED fight in Afghanistan and CSAF (Gen Michael Mosley) was adamant that we should be buying a future force (i.e. more F-22s) and fight the 3rd world assholes with what we already had. In the end, he got fired, we killed the F-22, and bought a whole bunch of crap that is now in the boneyard.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:54 pm to DesScorp
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It's still a shitty excuse for a warplane
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