Grounded: Nearly two-thirds of US Navy’s strike fighters can’t fly
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that story is from 2017
Article dated 2017. With supply chain issues, likely worse today. Would definitely like a more recent assessment. We know that Brandon and his band of merry fairies couldn't care less.
https://news.usni.org/2022/04/27/navy-will-endure-strike-fighter-gaps-until-2031-lawmakers-say
Thanks brother. Looks kind of deliberate. 2031? Aren't they supposed to have us a third world slave state by then?
...now is the time for all good men/women to come to the aid of our country.....
2017, but they sure are flying today here in Florida 🇺🇸
https://news.usni.org/2022/04/27/navy-will-endure-strike-fighter-gaps-until-2031-lawmakers-say
Ash, come on...5 yr old news
https://news.usni.org/2022/04/27/navy-will-endure-strike-fighter-gaps-until-2031-lawmakers-say
That’s BS and we all know it. Congress has zero trouble coming up with money for Ukraine, Somalia, illegal‘s (housing, money, medical, airplane flights), LGBQT agenda in public schools, but no money for repair or new purchase of military equipment (remember they left $45 billion dollars of new and newer equipment behind in Afghanistan (top brass acting like little babies running from bullies).
...there was a wonderful reply earlier on this thread pointing out the fact that this is bigger than a "hardware" problem...
...the military is suffering from a lack of skilled technicians who are capable of preforming the service that is needed on much of this advanced weaponry....
That is true. Perhaps part of the problem is separation from the service for refusal to take the Covid shot. I believe the intent is t weaken our military altogether: equipment out of service or in need of repair, skilled service men and women demoralized by the diversity/inclusion theme-weakened physically and emotionally, injured physically by the Covid shot=Military NOT ready, but weak in every way, shape and form. The top leaders need to be removed and face military tribunals. The destruction of this country from within and without is so massive, it will take decades to “right the ship.”
The equipment isn't really the biggest issue. The Navy has a bigger problem with the sailors. The expertise is no longer there, the technicians are completely unprepared to perform their jobs. The transition from class based training to computer based training has all but eliminated any technical knowledge from the Fleet. Even the Officers are under-prepared to perform even the most routine tasks of the past. The civilian techs with the greatest wealth of knowledge and ability are retiring or leaving the services because the system is so broken, it burns them out. The funding the Navy does get is thrown away on useless political garbage like the DMR radio, the LCS vessels which are finally getting decommissioned because they have no purpose or usefulness, the JTRS radio system had billions spent with the program ending up dead before any hardware was actually fielded. These are just a few of the programs that I have had personal knowledge of. All the while the gear actually on ships is neglected to the point where most of it no longer functions and is beyond the ability to be repaired on ship. Even our Marines were handed defeat after defeat by the Brits in a training exercise in California.
https://news.usni.org/2022/04/27/navy-will-endure-strike-fighter-gaps-until-2031-lawmakers-say
...this is a disgrace....