Comment on How can a military buy fighter jets that the seller has kill switches for?
cabbage@piefed.social 1 day agoTurns out America's greateast weapoin in its fight against terrorism is the quality of its engineering.
Comment on How can a military buy fighter jets that the seller has kill switches for?
cabbage@piefed.social 1 day agoTurns out America's greateast weapoin in its fight against terrorism is the quality of its engineering.
kersploosh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I wouldn’t expect jets from other countries to be any different. Aircraft in general get a lot of inspection and maintenance. Military jets planes push the limits of what their materials and systems can handle, and it takes a toll.
Idk how credible the site below is, but they claim the F-16 averages 15 hours of inspections ad maintenance for every hour of flight time. Also that military jets are generally only mission-ready about 50%-75% of the time, which means they spend an awful lot of their useful lives in the inspection and maintenance queues:
https://simpleflying.com/military-aircraft-maintenance/
cabbage@piefed.social 1 day ago
Yeah, I was being a bit cheeky - I wouldn't step on any jet plane that hasn't had access to official spare parts for a few years.
I just found it amusing F-14s were bought in the mid-70s, which I guess is around the time many would say the quality of American cars also began dropping.