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More than a dozen F-22s were left behind as Hurricane Michael bore down on the base Oct. 10. Now, in Michael's wake, many of those are damaged, and some beyond repair, at a cost of more than $1 billion, Air Force officials said.

>The F-22s left behind could not fly for either mechanical or safety reasons, said a spokeswoman, who also said all the hangars on base were damaged. Aerial video showed roofs and siding torn apart by savage winds and some hangars suffered severe structural damage.

Wow... the incompetence and corruption really has no bounds.

BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF F-22s are fucked!

air superiority fighter
gets BTFO by air

they had to cannibalize 2 of them

>cannibalize
I literally thought of other jets coming out of the hangars and literally ate the remains of other jets

@Shadowleech45 sometimes aircraft aren’t air worthy

Periodic maintenance, broke, etc

And flying would kill the plane and the pilot

the hanger doors werent reinforced either

I mean, a pilot wouldn’t get into an airworthy aircraft

heres your plane sir

f-22 broke

I was a crew chief in the af

understandable

Hangers aren’t really designed for hurricanes

The nature of big open buildings with huge doors

And most US bases don’t have hardened shelters for aircraft

you think being in the panhandle a hurricane zone they would have some kind of hardened shelter

Hardened shelters don't do anything against hurricanes

That too

They really don't help

i see

They’re designed for protecting from bombs and whatnot

i mean nothing can really protect you from a hurricane

It's a consistent beating that tears them down. A bomb hits once

Also, aircraft aren’t designed to deal with hurricane type winds

i read an article on the f-22 situation and it sounds like They are using good ol' "dismantle 2 planes and assemble 1 functioning one" technique already.

iranian air force tier if true

Yeah that's how it works when you have large scale problems

Salvage everything you can

its nig tier but it works

still though

sucks to lose a raptor

They’re called “can birds”

As in cannibalization

Although they shouldn’t have to do that on a modern platform generally

It’s kind of a last resort scenario. No idea the health of the F22 program.

Cannibalizing is a part of every military maintenance unit ever.

^

Even the most well equipped military is going to cannibalize a broken unit for parts rather than bother requisitioning new ones if they don't have to

Why do paperwork if you can just go to the ready made parts pile?

I mean shit, I think cannibalizing equipment is why the Marines still have... anything.

The poor crayon eaters gotta make do with nigger-rigged ghetto-teir equipment

Army hand me downs

I think they still have a vehicle in service basewd on the M60 hull

M-fucking-60

And they unironically operate M113s

>that's 18% of our nation's air defense force

>we have a plane that can't fucking fly in the rain as our first line of air defense

>these defective things are so slow to mobilize that they were caught in a storm with 72 hours warning

@RoflTank#752 cannibalizing is a last resort for aircraft as it’s hard getting a cannibalized aircraft back in the air once people start stealing parts

i feel bad for the marines they have shit equitment

you would only cannibalize a piece of equipment if it's fucked/Inoperable anyway.

Depends on the situation

And it takes a lot to fully write off an aircraft

Only equipment with a fubar gets canned

Because they’re so expensive

I just dont get your point, because this is something that we already know

Expensive means nothing to the military

They've decommissioned things like this on a whim

It takes literally nothing to write an aircraft off

just because something is expensive doesnt mean they dont get fucked to the point of being inoperable and get stripped for parts

They wrote off a blackhawk because a Mexican Rosehair trarantula crawled int he cockpit

They kept it in the bay for 3 months before finding it dead in the avionics panel

Some dumbass pilot spilled a bag of skittles and they literally disassembled the cockpit to find them all

that makes sense, something like that could legit fuck avionics

You pull 9g in an airframe and they'll shitcan it so fast your head will spin

Because aircraft are delicate, complex vehicles that cannot be safely operated if there's even a hint of damage

Sure they can take a beating, but it's not going back in the air afterwards

This isn't WWII where you can slap a new coat of paint on an airframe after it was shredded by fragmentation and had multiple control surfaces ripped off

yeah, back then it was only really bad when the internal framework was wrecked right?

because for the most part lots of damage could be fixed by replacing parts and skin

Pretty much, ytep

wing spars and control bars were pretty much the only critical components

Otherwise you just needed a rivet gun, duralumin sheets, and some paint

engines and guns could just be pulled out and replaced pretty easy if it came to that

It helps when you can basically take the .50 off your Willy and slap it in the gun mount

Also tfw your tanks used the same radial as your CAS