Flying F-22s is extremely expensive with an average flight hour cost of about $60K to repair stealth coating. This is a major contributor to its fairly abysmal mission capable rate of around 50%.

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ · 1 year ago

Flying F-22s is extremely expensive with an average flight hour cost of about $60K to repair stealth coating. This is a major contributor to its fairly abysmal mission capable rate of around 50%.

@PolandIsAStateOfMind · 1 year ago

I’m pretty sure most people in USA would like to decrease the military budget to various degrees, but it’s not like they ever have a choice, whomever their vote for, the military is always coming out the ballot box.

Flying F-22s is extremely expensive with an average flight hour cost of about $60K to repair stealth coating. This is a major contributor to its fairly abysmal mission capable rate of around 50%.

Flying F-22s is extremely expensive with an average flight hour cost of about $60K to repair stealth coating. This is a major contributor to its fairly abysmal mission capable rate of around 50%.

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