And no doubt expensive to fix.
Duct tape, lots and lots of it.
Whats everyones opinion of the possibility the AF brass is making a bigger dal out of this to get more F22’s.?
Fox did a report on it and I can believe it to some extent...like the kid who tells his dad his bike is broken to get the newest one....
They don’t want to fix it they want new toys to break.
Ouch/ping.
If the frame of my automobile was in serious structural condition, I would not repair, it's just time for a new car!
A long time ago, I used to build the Intergrated Circuits for the guidance systems of these.
There is a lot of ignorance in the posts. Any part on a plane can be replaced. They rebuild ford trimotors, dc-3s, and other antique planes all the time and we replaced most of the wing spars on the A-10s in recent years due to hi-g
Remember that these are planes designed to fight the Cold War, which ended in 1989. We don’t need them anymore because there is no current threat to America from the defunct Soviet Union. All we need are just a handful of WWII commemorative aircraft to defend the continent. We are safely sheltered by the oceans on either side of us.
(scarcasm off)
Its time to build more F 22s. They are expensive but losing air superiority to a potential enemy would be “expensive” also.
Oops!
US Navy prepping an unmanned combat aircraft US Navy has just unveiled their plans to develop an unmanned combat aircraft that will combat Lockheed Martin’s F-35 joint strike fighter. Furthermore, to accomplish the project, Northrop Grumman is awarded with $636 million contract to design, build, and fly an Unmanned Combat Air System ‘that would operate from the decks of the Navy’s giant nuclear-powered aircraft carriers’. Now, if the project goes according to plans, very soon we will see that gunners will join the forces within 10 to 15 years. Moreover, if we consider our land-based automatic soldiers to fire our weapons as deployed in Iraq, then we can forecast that time is not far ahead when a full-blown robotic army will soon wrestle in wars. http://www.weaponsblog.org/Poor Starscream - no wonder he switched forms to an F-22!
What was the rated airframe life when they were introduced? If it was around 25 years, our current situation only arises because of a lack of planning.
The aircraft that is supposed to replace the F-15 is the F-22. There won't be nearly enough of them. For all intents and purposes, with the exception of the F-16, the fighter branch of the Air Force is effectively hamstrung.
And the F-16 is as old (or nearly as old) as the F-15. What are we replacing that aircraft with?
America's enthrallment with gee-whiz technology and super-expensive manufacturing methods has put us in a pretty bad way. What on earth is our DOD going to do about this mess?
Good news for defense spending, though!
You don't expect that anymore. Usually it is the other way around.
The F-15E is the fix. The airframe was changed to address these defects.