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If they are going the route of dorsal intakes they may as well as go full Doritos…
Most of US fleet is aging... the worst are the training jets. T-7 was delayed again for one year this winter and the old fleet of T-38 with the last one build in 1972 is not helping pilots to get some flying hours. Even the goshawk is in some sort of dead end.
Yeah people talk about NATO's massive air force advantage in numbers. But a huge chunk of the US fleet is F-16 and F-15 aircraft from the Cold War. Not even new builds. In Europe there are loads of similar Cold War F-16s they are now dumping on Ukraine.
They have inducted significant numbers of F-35 5th gens but their availability is crap, even a decade after introduction. They have less availability than the rotting Cold War aircraft even.
China and Russia's air forces are mostly composed of aircraft built this century.
They have inducted significant numbers of F-35 5th gens but their availability is crap, even a decade after introduction. They have less availability than the rotting Cold War aircraft even.
China and Russia's air forces are mostly composed of aircraft built this century.
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IMO the maintenance resources (human and material) are no where close to being sufficient. Hence no matter how many F35s they buy, they will continue to have extremely poor availability. They invest in the buying of hardware but almost not at all in the upkeep.
That is an AI screenshot taken from an AI video (grok) created using the original pic from Northrop website. Nothing is known of the aft section yet
