capable rates in the NUMBER_TOKEN brackets NUMBER_TOKENs already saw the figures slip a little the f NUMBER_TOKEN was brand new dan new and complex systems always have teething problems so low availability was not unexpected aNUMBER_TOKENs were old and unmodernized not refurbished yet the rest of the fleet still did okay but let's look at the history of mission capable raids in more recent years what's apparent is that figures kept dropping for all plane types the a-NUMBER_TOKEN is not a fighter really but an attack aircraft with a fairly simple flight envelope not subject to too much flight stress the a-NUMBER_TOKEN fleet also went through a thorough modernization and refurbishment even getting completely new wings so it's doing okay its latest figure for NUMBER_TOKEN is actually an uptick over the previous year even though the plane has seen slightly better days in earlier years all other types however are keeping up the negative trend their mission capable rates slid down from NUMBER_TOKEN and while there were some good years as well recently the overall trend when viewed since NUMBER_TOKEN and especially since NUMBER_TOKEN paints a fairly grim picture f-NUMBER_TOKENs and f-NUMBER_TOKENs are doing okayish but given that they still slid by NUMBER_TOKEN percentage points it's impossible to say they're doing well basically if they were ready to do say NUMBER_TOKEN sorties during the war scenario within a year in NUMBER_TOKEN today they would be ready to do slightly under NUMBER_TOKEN sorties in a war f-NUMBER_TOKENe the ground strike variant of the eagle is doing similarly bad the f-NUMBER_TOKENa is quite new as said new planes always start off with poor mission capable raids the f-NUMBER_TOKEN for example had its starting rate in NUMBER_TOKEN of just NUMBER_TOKEN percent that figure went on a seesaw during the next NUMBER_TOKEN years but slowly crept up to over NUMBER_TOKEN in NUMBER_TOKEN but the f-NUMBER_TOKEN is a hugely complex aircraft with a bunch of sub-systems that were ahead of its time really and now we're seeing the price of being cutting edge where the f-NUMBER_TOKEN has benefited from the know-how how to design and maintain stealth and various advanced subsystems the f-NUMBER_TOKEN is a technological orphan its fleet is low in numbers it's expensive to make spares for it and expensive to maintain its old tech stealth coating and the mission capable rates have been dropping quite steeply part of the reason is modernization too meaning planned unavailability of part of the fleet but a good part of modernization is yet to come this november the air force signed a NUMBER_TOKEN billion modernization and support contract for f-NUMBER_TOKEN until NUMBER_TOKEN. so in a sense it's little wonder that the air force is planning to get rid of the f-NUMBER_TOKENs fairly soon during the NUMBER_TOKENs but benkov talked more about that in some of his previous videos fNUMBER_TOKENa's rates are going slightly up bigger variations are normal when the fleet is small as small changes and fixes to the fleet that were done to the f-NUMBER_TOKEN could affect the entire fleet within just a year or two as the f-NUMBER_TOKEN fleet grows it's likely the mission-capable rate will be more steady and eventually find itself firmly in the NUMBER_TOKEN percent range will it ever cross into the NUMBER_TOKEN bracket is unknown that figure is something the us air force has publicly demanded in the past both for the f-NUMBER_TOKEN and as an average for the rest of its planes but that was few years ago last year air force general charles
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