US Military Sends Hundreds of F35 and Weapons to Taiwan/Japan to whack China

[capamerica]

US Military Sends Hundreds of F 35 Fighter Jets & Advanced-Weapons to Taiwan-Japan to respond-China

 

[steffychun]

Taiwan will crash the F-35.

 

[redbull313]

F35 will anger chinks. i like.

 

[mojito]

US Military Sends Hundreds of F 35 Fighter Jets & Advanced-Weapons to Taiwan-Japan to respond-China

See? Protection dun cum cheap. Military sale come with Pacific fleet as security detail. Very worth!

 

[laksaboy]

Eagerly awaiting the day when the PRC embassy at Tanglin Road is no more.

China dismisses ‘groundless’ report that it conducts influence operations in S’pore
19 JULY, 2019
https://www.todayonline.com/singapo...report-it-conducts-influence-operations-spore

 

[tun_dr_m]

JOKER! CLOWN!

PLA can down ANY F-35 without taking-off a flight from mainland ground. Just fire missile.

It is EX-STEALTH & NON-STEALTH. It is Low Performance.

And Chinese arms dealers are dreaming for this time to arrive.

Because the Chinese RADARS & MISSILES ORDERS AND PRICES WILL SORE 20X 20X 50X immediately when F-35 got shot like this. The more number got shot down the higher number of times the prices and order quantities will sore.

发啊！

WHAT THEY REALLY LACK IS THE CHANCE TO PROVE THAT THEIR PRODUCTS ARE THAT GOOD! Dotard is offering this chance. 谢谢你傻屄特朗普！

 

[frenchbriefs]

f 35 is useless against the s400 missile........and one f 35 auto crashed itself off japan if i remember correctly.

USA is not taking u seriously unless they send f22........

 

[congo9]

F-22 I heard the my stop producing.

 

[SeeFartLoong]

F-22 I heard the my stop producing.

They dismantled the F-22 production line IMMEDIATELY after producing only just 135 units during 1990s. They got broke after spending that USD$65B. They sealed off the items from dismantled production line but FAILED TO REASSEMBLE & RESTART PRODUCTION partly due to $$COST$$. The hard things are the Engineers had either died or sick or rotting in senior citizens homes for COVID, nobody really knows about that dusted piles of assembly line parts any longer.

There is ONLY ABOUT 68 REMAINING F-22 after damages by crashes & fire & Hurricane & Floods.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davida...-the-us-air-force-got-desperate/#8349e9f54faf

Jun 13, 2020,08:00am EDT
With F-22 Stealth Fighters Running Out, The U.S. Air Force Got Desperate

David AxeContributor

Aerospace & Defense

An F-22 Raptor assigned to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, flies in formation over the ... [+]

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. James Richardson
A hurricane that struck Florida in late 2018 damaged and displaced so many of the U.S. Air Force’s F-22 Raptor stealth fighters that the flying branch resorted to desperate measures to ensure it could fly enough F-22 sorties.


It underscores how few Raptors the Air Force possesses, and how fragile the fleet could be if it ever sustains major losses in wartime.

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Hurricane Michael wreaked havoc on Florida’s Panhandle region in late October 2018. Wind and rain lashed Tyndall Air Force Base, uprooting trees, flattening buildings and ripping the roofs off of hangars.

Tyndall at the time was the F-22 training base. Prior to the storm, two Tyndall squadrons—the 43rd Fighter Squadron, a dedicated training unit, and the combat-coded 95th Fighter Squadron—together operated 55 of the Air Force’s 186 F-22s.

Airmen at Tyndall were able to fly out just 38 of the 55 Raptors prior to the storm. The remaining 17 jets—nearly a tenth of all F-22s—were down for maintenance. Those jets rode out the wind and rain in hangars. Some suffered damage.

Airmen promptly repaired many of the jets. Photos depicted small numbers of F-22 departing the Florida base on Oct. 21 and 24. The last three F-22s left Tyndall on Nov. 16.

With Tyndall needing years of work costing billions of dollars, the Air Force decided to relocate all of the base’s F-22s to other facilities.

The combat-coded 95th Fighter Squadron disbanded and dispersed its 24 late-model F-22s to the three other bases with front-line Raptors. "We have recommended that the best path forward to increase readiness and use money wisely is to consolidate the operational F-22s," said Heather Wilson, then the Air Force secretary.

Eight U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, sit on the ... [+]
U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe
Langley in Virginia, Elmendorf in Alaska and Hickam in Hawaii together house five F-22 squadrons. At the time of the storm, Langley's two squadrons each had 23 F-22s. Elmendorf's two squadrons together possessed 47 Raptors. Hickam's sole squadron, an Air National Guard unit, operated 20 F-22s. The jets from the disbanded 95th Fighter Squadron helped the other units boost their flyable strength to at least 24 planes apiece.

The 43rd Fighter Squadron, the training unit, set up shop with 28 early-model F-22s at Eglin Air Force Base in western Florida. That's three fewer F-22s than the squadron possessed prior to the storm, implying that at least three of the unit’s Raptors suffered serious storm damage.

The damage and churn in late 2018 and early 2019 effectively removed dozens of F-22s from the inventory—this at a time when the Air Force was trying to keep a small force of Raptors deployed to the United Arab Emirates for missions over Iraq, Syria and the Persian Gulf.

The Air Force swiftly recalled the F-22s from the Emirates, replacing them with older F-15Cs and, later, smaller F-35 stealth fighters. Meanwhile, the flying branch undertook a crash program to allow its undamaged Raptors to fly more frequently.

The rapid crew-swap initiative was simple in concept. “In a rapid crew-swap, an aircraft is launched, completes its mission and upon returning to base the pilot is quickly changed,” the Air Force explained in a May release. “As the pilots are changing out maintenance personnel refuel and complete expedited checks before immediately launching the aircraft for another mission.”

“Incorporating rapid crew-swaps can reduce the time it takes to generate a new sortie by up to two hours,” the Air Force stated. Same number of jets. More missions.

Maj. Benjamin Gilliland and Lt. Col. Tyler Robarge, both of the 411th Flight Test Squadron and F-22 ... [+]
U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin
While the Air Force originally developed rapid crew-swap procedures to help boost the F-22’s training fleet, the same technique also can help improve the flying rate of combat units.

In April, the Raptor test fleet began developing standardized methods of swapping pilots. “Tyndall really paved the way for the rest of the community in showing that this was a viable option to increase sortie production,” said Lt. Col. Tyler Robarge, the F-22 test director with the 411th Flight Test Squadron at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Raptor availability improved in the year following Hurricane Michael. By May this year, 123 of the latest Block 30/35/40 F-22s equipped the five front-line squadrons. Test units at Edwards and Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada flew 16 of the oldest Raptors.

The training unit then at Eglin possessed 29 Block 10/20 F-22s before losing one in a non-fatal crash on May 15.

Today 168 F-22s equip the combat, test and training squadrons. The balance, 17 airframes, is in the back-up inventory. In other words, the Air Force has 17 Raptors that it considers “extra.” Thirteen are combat-coded models. Two are training jets. Two are test planes.

That’s 17 F-22s the Air Force can afford to lose. After that, the Raptor fleet must take desperate measures to keep training, testing and fighting. Desperate measures such as swapping out pilots.

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David Axe


https://www.questia.com/article/1P2-39548880/congress-asking-air-force-to-look-at-restarting-f-22


Congress Asking Air Force to Look at Restarting F-22 Production Line
By Klimas, Jacqueline

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Article excerpt


Increasing threats from China and Russia are causing some lawmakers to look at restarting the F-22 fighter production line, a House Armed Services Committee staffer said Tuesday.
The draft defense authorization bill from the Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces requires the Air Force to deliver a report to Congress by Jan. 1, 2017, detailing future aircraft shortfalls and what it would cost to buy more F-22s.
"In light of growing threats to U.S. air superiority as a result of adversaries closing the technology gap and increasing demand from allies and partners for high-performance, multi-role aircraft to meet evolving and worsening global security threats, the committee believes that such proposals are worthy of further exploration," the draft bill says.
The decision to give the F-22 another look is being driven by changes in the world order, including the rise of China and Russia, according to committee staff. …



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美国总共生产195架F-22战机，十年过后，仅剩68架可起飞作战

大国争霸
发布时间：19-09-0316:16优质创作者
世界上隐身效果最好的战机，也是曾经最强的隐形战机F-22，现在出现了重大问题。据媒体报道，由于美国空军维护不到位，现在美军能够使用的F-22战机，就只有68架了。要知道，美国总共才生产了195架F-22战机，而该战机在2005年的时候，才正式服役。至今，不过才短短的十几年时间，结果就瘫痪了100多架战机！

据了解，在这仅剩的68架F-22战机中，只有17架是Block35批次生产的F-22战机（也就是最厉害的F-22战机）。美国的F-22战机因为生产的批次不同，其综合实力也不同，由于后发优势，后期生产的战机，普遍要比前期强。然而，就是这种最好的F-22战机，就只剩下了17架。如此低能的妥善率，让外界都非常的震惊。值得一提的是，美军除了保养和维护F-22战机不行之外，他保养和维护其他的战机也不行。

据悉，美军从1986年开始，先后列装了100架B-1B战略轰炸机，结果到现在为止，就只剩下6架还能升空作战了。B-1B战略轰炸机的妥善率，直接就掉下了10%的水平线。这么多的好装备，就因为保养和维护不到位，便提前退出了战场，这无疑是一件让人非常痛心的事情。为什么会出现这样的状况呢？难道是因为维护资金不够所导致的吗？

据报道，美军战机维护不利，与维护资金没有任何的关系。就比如说，美军的F-22战机，每年便可以得到约32亿美元的维护经费，如果美军将这些费用，花到了实处，那么美国现在能使用的F-22战机，肯定不止68架。所以美军武器妥善率低，根本就不是维护经费的问题，而是人的问题，是管理的问题。这里面可能有军官和政客的身影，也可能有武器制造商的身影。毕竟，如果武器经久耐用，那么美国的武器制造商就没生意可做了，而武器制造商没生意做，那么纳税就困难了……


A total of 195 F-22 fighters are produced by the United States. Ten years later, only 68 are available for takeoff
Great powers strive for hegemony
Release time: 19-09-0316:16
The F-22, the world's best stealth fighter and once the strongest stealth fighter, is now facing major problems. According to media reports, due to inadequate maintenance of the U.S. air force, only 68 F-22 fighters can be used by the US military. We should know that the United States has only produced 195 F-22 fighters, which were officially commissioned in 2005. So far, only a short period of more than ten years, the result has paralyzed more than 100 fighters!
It is understood that out of the remaining 68 F-22 fighters, only 17 are F-22 fighters produced in block 35 batch (that is, the most powerful F-22 fighters). Because of the different batches produced, the comprehensive strength of the F-22 fighters of the United States is also different. Due to the advantage of late development, the fighters produced in the later stage are generally stronger than those in the earlier stage. However, there are only 17 of the best F-22 fighters left. Such a low rate of appropriateness has shocked the outside world. It is worth mentioning that apart from the maintenance and maintenance of F-22 fighters, the US military can not maintain and maintain other fighters.
It is reported that since 1986, the U.S. military has successively installed 100 B-1B strategic bombers. As a result, only six of them can be launched into the air. The proper rate of B-1B strategic bombers has directly dropped 10% of the horizontal line. So many good equipment, just because the maintenance and maintenance is not in place, they quit the battlefield ahead of time, which is undoubtedly a very sad thing. Why does this happen? Is it due to insufficient maintenance funds?
It is reported that the maintenance of us warplanes is unfavorable and has nothing to do with the maintenance funds. For example, the U.S. military's F-22 fighters can get about $3.2 billion in maintenance funds every year. If the US military spends these costs, then the United States can use more than 68 F-22 fighters. Therefore, the low weapon availability rate of the US military is not a matter of maintenance funds, but a matter of people and management. There may be officers and politicians in this, as well as weapons manufacturers. After all, if the weapons are durable, then the U.S. arms manufacturers will have no business to do, and if the arms manufacturers do not have business, it will be difficult to pay taxes

 

[syed putra]

f 35 is useless against the s400 missile........and one f 35 auto crashed itself off japan if i remember correctly.

USA is not taking u seriously unless they send f22........

They couldn't find the wreckage. Because its stealth.

 

[syed putra]

They dismantled the F-22 production line IMMEDIATELY after producing only just 135 units during 1990s. They got broke after spending that USD$65B. They sealed off the items from dismantled production line but FAILED TO REASSEMBLE & RESTART PRODUCTION partly due to $$COST$$. The hard things are the Engineers had either died or sick or rotting in senior citizens homes for COVID, nobody really knows about that dusted piles of assembly line parts any longer.

There is ONLY ABOUT 68 REMAINING F-22 after damages by crashes & fire & Hurricane & Floods.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davida...-the-us-air-force-got-desperate/#8349e9f54faf

Jun 13, 2020,08:00am EDT
With F-22 Stealth Fighters Running Out, The U.S. Air Force Got Desperate

David AxeContributor

Aerospace & Defense

An F-22 Raptor assigned to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, flies in formation over the ... [+]

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. James Richardson
A hurricane that struck Florida in late 2018 damaged and displaced so many of the U.S. Air Force’s F-22 Raptor stealth fighters that the flying branch resorted to desperate measures to ensure it could fly enough F-22 sorties.


It underscores how few Raptors the Air Force possesses, and how fragile the fleet could be if it ever sustains major losses in wartime.

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Hurricane Michael wreaked havoc on Florida’s Panhandle region in late October 2018. Wind and rain lashed Tyndall Air Force Base, uprooting trees, flattening buildings and ripping the roofs off of hangars.

Tyndall at the time was the F-22 training base. Prior to the storm, two Tyndall squadrons—the 43rd Fighter Squadron, a dedicated training unit, and the combat-coded 95th Fighter Squadron—together operated 55 of the Air Force’s 186 F-22s.

Airmen at Tyndall were able to fly out just 38 of the 55 Raptors prior to the storm. The remaining 17 jets—nearly a tenth of all F-22s—were down for maintenance. Those jets rode out the wind and rain in hangars. Some suffered damage.

Airmen promptly repaired many of the jets. Photos depicted small numbers of F-22 departing the Florida base on Oct. 21 and 24. The last three F-22s left Tyndall on Nov. 16.

With Tyndall needing years of work costing billions of dollars, the Air Force decided to relocate all of the base’s F-22s to other facilities.

The combat-coded 95th Fighter Squadron disbanded and dispersed its 24 late-model F-22s to the three other bases with front-line Raptors. "We have recommended that the best path forward to increase readiness and use money wisely is to consolidate the operational F-22s," said Heather Wilson, then the Air Force secretary.

Eight U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, sit on the ... [+]
U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe
Langley in Virginia, Elmendorf in Alaska and Hickam in Hawaii together house five F-22 squadrons. At the time of the storm, Langley's two squadrons each had 23 F-22s. Elmendorf's two squadrons together possessed 47 Raptors. Hickam's sole squadron, an Air National Guard unit, operated 20 F-22s. The jets from the disbanded 95th Fighter Squadron helped the other units boost their flyable strength to at least 24 planes apiece.

The 43rd Fighter Squadron, the training unit, set up shop with 28 early-model F-22s at Eglin Air Force Base in western Florida. That's three fewer F-22s than the squadron possessed prior to the storm, implying that at least three of the unit’s Raptors suffered serious storm damage.

The damage and churn in late 2018 and early 2019 effectively removed dozens of F-22s from the inventory—this at a time when the Air Force was trying to keep a small force of Raptors deployed to the United Arab Emirates for missions over Iraq, Syria and the Persian Gulf.

The Air Force swiftly recalled the F-22s from the Emirates, replacing them with older F-15Cs and, later, smaller F-35 stealth fighters. Meanwhile, the flying branch undertook a crash program to allow its undamaged Raptors to fly more frequently.

The rapid crew-swap initiative was simple in concept. “In a rapid crew-swap, an aircraft is launched, completes its mission and upon returning to base the pilot is quickly changed,” the Air Force explained in a May release. “As the pilots are changing out maintenance personnel refuel and complete expedited checks before immediately launching the aircraft for another mission.”

“Incorporating rapid crew-swaps can reduce the time it takes to generate a new sortie by up to two hours,” the Air Force stated. Same number of jets. More missions.

Maj. Benjamin Gilliland and Lt. Col. Tyler Robarge, both of the 411th Flight Test Squadron and F-22 ... [+]
U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin
While the Air Force originally developed rapid crew-swap procedures to help boost the F-22’s training fleet, the same technique also can help improve the flying rate of combat units.

In April, the Raptor test fleet began developing standardized methods of swapping pilots. “Tyndall really paved the way for the rest of the community in showing that this was a viable option to increase sortie production,” said Lt. Col. Tyler Robarge, the F-22 test director with the 411th Flight Test Squadron at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Raptor availability improved in the year following Hurricane Michael. By May this year, 123 of the latest Block 30/35/40 F-22s equipped the five front-line squadrons. Test units at Edwards and Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada flew 16 of the oldest Raptors.

The training unit then at Eglin possessed 29 Block 10/20 F-22s before losing one in a non-fatal crash on May 15.

Today 168 F-22s equip the combat, test and training squadrons. The balance, 17 airframes, is in the back-up inventory. In other words, the Air Force has 17 Raptors that it considers “extra.” Thirteen are combat-coded models. Two are training jets. Two are test planes.

That’s 17 F-22s the Air Force can afford to lose. After that, the Raptor fleet must take desperate measures to keep training, testing and fighting. Desperate measures such as swapping out pilots.

Follow me on Twitter. Check out my website or some of my other work here.

David Axe


https://www.questia.com/article/1P2-39548880/congress-asking-air-force-to-look-at-restarting-f-22


Congress Asking Air Force to Look at Restarting F-22 Production Line
By Klimas, Jacqueline

Read preview
Article excerpt


Increasing threats from China and Russia are causing some lawmakers to look at restarting the F-22 fighter production line, a House Armed Services Committee staffer said Tuesday.
The draft defense authorization bill from the Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces requires the Air Force to deliver a report to Congress by Jan. 1, 2017, detailing future aircraft shortfalls and what it would cost to buy more F-22s.
"In light of growing threats to U.S. air superiority as a result of adversaries closing the technology gap and increasing demand from allies and partners for high-performance, multi-role aircraft to meet evolving and worsening global security threats, the committee believes that such proposals are worthy of further exploration," the draft bill says.
The decision to give the F-22 another look is being driven by changes in the world order, including the rise of China and Russia, according to committee staff. …



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美国总共生产195架F-22战机，十年过后，仅剩68架可起飞作战

大国争霸
发布时间：19-09-0316:16优质创作者
世界上隐身效果最好的战机，也是曾经最强的隐形战机F-22，现在出现了重大问题。据媒体报道，由于美国空军维护不到位，现在美军能够使用的F-22战机，就只有68架了。要知道，美国总共才生产了195架F-22战机，而该战机在2005年的时候，才正式服役。至今，不过才短短的十几年时间，结果就瘫痪了100多架战机！

据了解，在这仅剩的68架F-22战机中，只有17架是Block35批次生产的F-22战机（也就是最厉害的F-22战机）。美国的F-22战机因为生产的批次不同，其综合实力也不同，由于后发优势，后期生产的战机，普遍要比前期强。然而，就是这种最好的F-22战机，就只剩下了17架。如此低能的妥善率，让外界都非常的震惊。值得一提的是，美军除了保养和维护F-22战机不行之外，他保养和维护其他的战机也不行。

据悉，美军从1986年开始，先后列装了100架B-1B战略轰炸机，结果到现在为止，就只剩下6架还能升空作战了。B-1B战略轰炸机的妥善率，直接就掉下了10%的水平线。这么多的好装备，就因为保养和维护不到位，便提前退出了战场，这无疑是一件让人非常痛心的事情。为什么会出现这样的状况呢？难道是因为维护资金不够所导致的吗？

据报道，美军战机维护不利，与维护资金没有任何的关系。就比如说，美军的F-22战机，每年便可以得到约32亿美元的维护经费，如果美军将这些费用，花到了实处，那么美国现在能使用的F-22战机，肯定不止68架。所以美军武器妥善率低，根本就不是维护经费的问题，而是人的问题，是管理的问题。这里面可能有军官和政客的身影，也可能有武器制造商的身影。毕竟，如果武器经久耐用，那么美国的武器制造商就没生意可做了，而武器制造商没生意做，那么纳税就困难了……


A total of 195 F-22 fighters are produced by the United States. Ten years later, only 68 are available for takeoff
Great powers strive for hegemony
Release time: 19-09-0316:16
The F-22, the world's best stealth fighter and once the strongest stealth fighter, is now facing major problems. According to media reports, due to inadequate maintenance of the U.S. air force, only 68 F-22 fighters can be used by the US military. We should know that the United States has only produced 195 F-22 fighters, which were officially commissioned in 2005. So far, only a short period of more than ten years, the result has paralyzed more than 100 fighters!
It is understood that out of the remaining 68 F-22 fighters, only 17 are F-22 fighters produced in block 35 batch (that is, the most powerful F-22 fighters). Because of the different batches produced, the comprehensive strength of the F-22 fighters of the United States is also different. Due to the advantage of late development, the fighters produced in the later stage are generally stronger than those in the earlier stage. However, there are only 17 of the best F-22 fighters left. Such a low rate of appropriateness has shocked the outside world. It is worth mentioning that apart from the maintenance and maintenance of F-22 fighters, the US military can not maintain and maintain other fighters.
It is reported that since 1986, the U.S. military has successively installed 100 B-1B strategic bombers. As a result, only six of them can be launched into the air. The proper rate of B-1B strategic bombers has directly dropped 10% of the horizontal line. So many good equipment, just because the maintenance and maintenance is not in place, they quit the battlefield ahead of time, which is undoubtedly a very sad thing. Why does this happen? Is it due to insufficient maintenance funds?
It is reported that the maintenance of us warplanes is unfavorable and has nothing to do with the maintenance funds. For example, the U.S. military's F-22 fighters can get about $3.2 billion in maintenance funds every year. If the US military spends these costs, then the United States can use more than 68 F-22 fighters. Therefore, the low weapon availability rate of the US military is not a matter of maintenance funds, but a matter of people and management. There may be officers and politicians in this, as well as weapons manufacturers. After all, if the weapons are durable, then the U.S. arms manufacturers will have no business to do, and if the arms manufacturers do not have business, it will be difficult to pay taxes

They only need one to blow up the three gorges dam.

 

[syed putra]

If US cannot get enough F-22's, they got this.

USAF orders eight Boeing F-15EX as part of deal worth up to $23bn
14 July 2020

The US Air Force has ordered eight Boeing F-15EX fighters as part of a larger deal the manufacturer says could be worth nearly $23 billion.

Which could be a Boeing bailout in disguise,

 

[redbull313]

So the superior F35 of USA making China angry. I like

 

[leeisphtui]

So the superior F35 of USA making China angry. I like

Agreed its a clear move against china 105 F35s in Japan with new missiles and jets in Taiwan means the PLA is in big trouble now. F35 is vastly more advanced than anything the chinks can muster

 

[Peiweh]

Agreed its a clear move against china 105 F35s in Japan with new missiles and jets in Taiwan means the PLA is in big trouble now. F35 is vastly more advanced than anything the chinks can muster

well we all know who is King of the world - America and no one else.

 

[steffychun]

Trump like Tsai the lesbian?

 

[kiketerm]

They dismantled the F-22 production line IMMEDIATELY after producing only just 135 units during 1990s. They got broke after spending that USD$65B. They sealed off the items from dismantled production line but FAILED TO REASSEMBLE & RESTART PRODUCTION partly due to $$COST$$. The hard things are the Engineers had either died or sick or rotting in senior citizens homes for COVID, nobody really knows about that dusted piles of assembly line parts any longer.

There is ONLY ABOUT 68 REMAINING F-22 after damages by crashes & fire & Hurricane & Floods.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davida...-the-us-air-force-got-desperate/#8349e9f54faf

Jun 13, 2020,08:00am EDT
With F-22 Stealth Fighters Running Out, The U.S. Air Force Got Desperate

David AxeContributor

Aerospace & Defense

An F-22 Raptor assigned to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, flies in formation over the ... [+]

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. James Richardson
A hurricane that struck Florida in late 2018 damaged and displaced so many of the U.S. Air Force’s F-22 Raptor stealth fighters that the flying branch resorted to desperate measures to ensure it could fly enough F-22 sorties.


It underscores how few Raptors the Air Force possesses, and how fragile the fleet could be if it ever sustains major losses in wartime.

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Hurricane Michael wreaked havoc on Florida’s Panhandle region in late October 2018. Wind and rain lashed Tyndall Air Force Base, uprooting trees, flattening buildings and ripping the roofs off of hangars.

Tyndall at the time was the F-22 training base. Prior to the storm, two Tyndall squadrons—the 43rd Fighter Squadron, a dedicated training unit, and the combat-coded 95th Fighter Squadron—together operated 55 of the Air Force’s 186 F-22s.

Airmen at Tyndall were able to fly out just 38 of the 55 Raptors prior to the storm. The remaining 17 jets—nearly a tenth of all F-22s—were down for maintenance. Those jets rode out the wind and rain in hangars. Some suffered damage.

Airmen promptly repaired many of the jets. Photos depicted small numbers of F-22 departing the Florida base on Oct. 21 and 24. The last three F-22s left Tyndall on Nov. 16.

With Tyndall needing years of work costing billions of dollars, the Air Force decided to relocate all of the base’s F-22s to other facilities.

The combat-coded 95th Fighter Squadron disbanded and dispersed its 24 late-model F-22s to the three other bases with front-line Raptors. "We have recommended that the best path forward to increase readiness and use money wisely is to consolidate the operational F-22s," said Heather Wilson, then the Air Force secretary.

Eight U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, sit on the ... [+]
U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe
Langley in Virginia, Elmendorf in Alaska and Hickam in Hawaii together house five F-22 squadrons. At the time of the storm, Langley's two squadrons each had 23 F-22s. Elmendorf's two squadrons together possessed 47 Raptors. Hickam's sole squadron, an Air National Guard unit, operated 20 F-22s. The jets from the disbanded 95th Fighter Squadron helped the other units boost their flyable strength to at least 24 planes apiece.

The 43rd Fighter Squadron, the training unit, set up shop with 28 early-model F-22s at Eglin Air Force Base in western Florida. That's three fewer F-22s than the squadron possessed prior to the storm, implying that at least three of the unit’s Raptors suffered serious storm damage.

The damage and churn in late 2018 and early 2019 effectively removed dozens of F-22s from the inventory—this at a time when the Air Force was trying to keep a small force of Raptors deployed to the United Arab Emirates for missions over Iraq, Syria and the Persian Gulf.

The Air Force swiftly recalled the F-22s from the Emirates, replacing them with older F-15Cs and, later, smaller F-35 stealth fighters. Meanwhile, the flying branch undertook a crash program to allow its undamaged Raptors to fly more frequently.

The rapid crew-swap initiative was simple in concept. “In a rapid crew-swap, an aircraft is launched, completes its mission and upon returning to base the pilot is quickly changed,” the Air Force explained in a May release. “As the pilots are changing out maintenance personnel refuel and complete expedited checks before immediately launching the aircraft for another mission.”

“Incorporating rapid crew-swaps can reduce the time it takes to generate a new sortie by up to two hours,” the Air Force stated. Same number of jets. More missions.

Maj. Benjamin Gilliland and Lt. Col. Tyler Robarge, both of the 411th Flight Test Squadron and F-22 ... [+]
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While the Air Force originally developed rapid crew-swap procedures to help boost the F-22’s training fleet, the same technique also can help improve the flying rate of combat units.

In April, the Raptor test fleet began developing standardized methods of swapping pilots. “Tyndall really paved the way for the rest of the community in showing that this was a viable option to increase sortie production,” said Lt. Col. Tyler Robarge, the F-22 test director with the 411th Flight Test Squadron at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Raptor availability improved in the year following Hurricane Michael. By May this year, 123 of the latest Block 30/35/40 F-22s equipped the five front-line squadrons. Test units at Edwards and Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada flew 16 of the oldest Raptors.

The training unit then at Eglin possessed 29 Block 10/20 F-22s before losing one in a non-fatal crash on May 15.

Today 168 F-22s equip the combat, test and training squadrons. The balance, 17 airframes, is in the back-up inventory. In other words, the Air Force has 17 Raptors that it considers “extra.” Thirteen are combat-coded models. Two are training jets. Two are test planes.

That’s 17 F-22s the Air Force can afford to lose. After that, the Raptor fleet must take desperate measures to keep training, testing and fighting. Desperate measures such as swapping out pilots.

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https://www.questia.com/article/1P2-39548880/congress-asking-air-force-to-look-at-restarting-f-22


Congress Asking Air Force to Look at Restarting F-22 Production Line
By Klimas, Jacqueline

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Increasing threats from China and Russia are causing some lawmakers to look at restarting the F-22 fighter production line, a House Armed Services Committee staffer said Tuesday.
The draft defense authorization bill from the Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces requires the Air Force to deliver a report to Congress by Jan. 1, 2017, detailing future aircraft shortfalls and what it would cost to buy more F-22s.
"In light of growing threats to U.S. air superiority as a result of adversaries closing the technology gap and increasing demand from allies and partners for high-performance, multi-role aircraft to meet evolving and worsening global security threats, the committee believes that such proposals are worthy of further exploration," the draft bill says.
The decision to give the F-22 another look is being driven by changes in the world order, including the rise of China and Russia, according to committee staff. …



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美国总共生产195架F-22战机，十年过后，仅剩68架可起飞作战

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发布时间：19-09-0316:16优质创作者
世界上隐身效果最好的战机，也是曾经最强的隐形战机F-22，现在出现了重大问题。据媒体报道，由于美国空军维护不到位，现在美军能够使用的F-22战机，就只有68架了。要知道，美国总共才生产了195架F-22战机，而该战机在2005年的时候，才正式服役。至今，不过才短短的十几年时间，结果就瘫痪了100多架战机！

据了解，在这仅剩的68架F-22战机中，只有17架是Block35批次生产的F-22战机（也就是最厉害的F-22战机）。美国的F-22战机因为生产的批次不同，其综合实力也不同，由于后发优势，后期生产的战机，普遍要比前期强。然而，就是这种最好的F-22战机，就只剩下了17架。如此低能的妥善率，让外界都非常的震惊。值得一提的是，美军除了保养和维护F-22战机不行之外，他保养和维护其他的战机也不行。

据悉，美军从1986年开始，先后列装了100架B-1B战略轰炸机，结果到现在为止，就只剩下6架还能升空作战了。B-1B战略轰炸机的妥善率，直接就掉下了10%的水平线。这么多的好装备，就因为保养和维护不到位，便提前退出了战场，这无疑是一件让人非常痛心的事情。为什么会出现这样的状况呢？难道是因为维护资金不够所导致的吗？

据报道，美军战机维护不利，与维护资金没有任何的关系。就比如说，美军的F-22战机，每年便可以得到约32亿美元的维护经费，如果美军将这些费用，花到了实处，那么美国现在能使用的F-22战机，肯定不止68架。所以美军武器妥善率低，根本就不是维护经费的问题，而是人的问题，是管理的问题。这里面可能有军官和政客的身影，也可能有武器制造商的身影。毕竟，如果武器经久耐用，那么美国的武器制造商就没生意可做了，而武器制造商没生意做，那么纳税就困难了……


A total of 195 F-22 fighters are produced by the United States. Ten years later, only 68 are available for takeoff
Great powers strive for hegemony
Release time: 19-09-0316:16
The F-22, the world's best stealth fighter and once the strongest stealth fighter, is now facing major problems. According to media reports, due to inadequate maintenance of the U.S. air force, only 68 F-22 fighters can be used by the US military. We should know that the United States has only produced 195 F-22 fighters, which were officially commissioned in 2005. So far, only a short period of more than ten years, the result has paralyzed more than 100 fighters!
It is understood that out of the remaining 68 F-22 fighters, only 17 are F-22 fighters produced in block 35 batch (that is, the most powerful F-22 fighters). Because of the different batches produced, the comprehensive strength of the F-22 fighters of the United States is also different. Due to the advantage of late development, the fighters produced in the later stage are generally stronger than those in the earlier stage. However, there are only 17 of the best F-22 fighters left. Such a low rate of appropriateness has shocked the outside world. It is worth mentioning that apart from the maintenance and maintenance of F-22 fighters, the US military can not maintain and maintain other fighters.
It is reported that since 1986, the U.S. military has successively installed 100 B-1B strategic bombers. As a result, only six of them can be launched into the air. The proper rate of B-1B strategic bombers has directly dropped 10% of the horizontal line. So many good equipment, just because the maintenance and maintenance is not in place, they quit the battlefield ahead of time, which is undoubtedly a very sad thing. Why does this happen? Is it due to insufficient maintenance funds?
It is reported that the maintenance of us warplanes is unfavorable and has nothing to do with the maintenance funds. For example, the U.S. military's F-22 fighters can get about $3.2 billion in maintenance funds every year. If the US military spends these costs, then the United States can use more than 68 F-22 fighters. Therefore, the low weapon availability rate of the US military is not a matter of maintenance funds, but a matter of people and management. There may be officers and politicians in this, as well as weapons manufacturers. After all, if the weapons are durable, then the U.S. arms manufacturers will have no business to do, and if the arms manufacturers do not have business, it will be difficult to pay taxes

why lie? same author says USofA currently has 185 of the 195 F22s built

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davida...-just-crashed-how-many-are-left/#4ff3e52e54c3

The crash leaves the Air Force with 185 Raptors out of the 195 that Lockheed Martin LMT +0.7% built starting in the mid-1990s.
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and your falsehoods persist! same article (for those of us who bothered to read) show again its 185 current F22s in the US Airforce inventory

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davida...-the-us-air-force-got-desperate/#36d5bdeb54fa

Today 168 F-22s equip the combat, test and training squadrons. The balance, 17 airframes, is in the back-up inventory. In other words, the Air Force has 17 Raptors that it considers “extra.” Thirteen are combat-coded models. Two are training jets. Two are test planes.

 

[syed putra]

Agreed its a clear move against china 105 F35s in Japan with new missiles and jets in Taiwan means the PLA is in big trouble now. F35 is vastly more advanced than anything the chinks can muster

Taiwan will not get the F-35. They will only be supplied with F-16V, plus their previous F-16's will be upgraded to V standard. All fully paid. Nothing is free.
Same with japan wrt their f-35.

 

[redbull313]

Taiwan will not get the F-35. They will only be supplied with F-16V, plus their previous F-16's will be upgraded to V standard. All fully paid. Nothing is free.
Same with japan wrt their f-35.

the japs are rearming now aircraft carriers, F35, their own 5th gen jet all directed at xi and his antics

 

[frenchbriefs]

the japs are rearming now aircraft carriers, F35, their own 5th gen jet all directed at xi and his antics

10 years ago China overtook japan world no.2 economy for the first time with their gdp at 4.6 trillion......10 years has passed since,china's gdp is now nearly 15 trillion while japan's gdp is still stuck at 4.6 trillion.

i think they have bigger problems to worry about than xi's antics.