Between the sequester-forced military spending cuts and the delays on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Navy is being forced to cobble together parts and pieces of F/A-18 Hornets in order to keep flying. The aircraft were expected to log 6,000 on their airframes over their lifetimes, but the Navy is pushing that to 10,000 in order to have at least some aircraft available for training. Aviators are suppose to log 11 hours a month in the Hornet in order to stay current in their training, but many are only managing 4 hours due to the shortage of aircraft.
This spring the Navy decided to order up a few more F/A 18s from Boeing rather than continue to wait for things to change Here
h/t OAN
If this purposeful depletion of combat readiness was obama’s only crime against this country, he’d still be labeled a traitor. This is a small snapshot of the treachery and destruction he unleashed as an Islamist CINC
Fuck everyone who voted for him. Even you deceased people
You have to have an enormous schwanzstucker to fly one of those.
Well, the fighters may be held together with Gorilla Tape, but look at the bright side, all our ships are being retrofitted with transgender showers and toilets! Priorities! And of course, DJT will be pilloried for busting the budget when he tries to get our military back in order.
Went thru this with Jimmu Castro Carter and Billy Boris Brezhnev. Both tried to destroy our military in the name of fiscal responsibility. Had to cannibalize parts hourly. The gay Kenyan commie and his pals in congress purposely crippled our military to make things better for our enemies. The gay Kenyan commie, both Clintons, and Jimmu should be hung for treason. Oh. Wait. What? Hillary and Mooch are already hung?
A lot of military people wanted to scrap the F-35 and continue with the FA 18 program. There is a question as to whether or not the F-35 is even a significant improvement over the FA 18, the F 15 or even the F 16. I understand that the US military needs to be cutting edge when it comes to military hardware, but the F-35 seems to be a peacetime boondoggle which was allowed to continue for the purpose of providing pork for congressional districts.
This was caused by Paul Ryan’s sequestration deal with Obama
From all I’ve read the F-35 is an unreliable, maintenance intensive nightmare. Under combat conditions most would stay grounded. Incredible expense just for the VTOL capability. In other words boondoggle.
And it just so happens that the Chinese have no one that looks just like it!