Posted on Oct 17, 2018
Air Force Still Mum on How Many F-22s Damaged in Hurricane
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People appear to be reacting to pictures from Tyndal AFB, FL. Look carefully at the video as I did and you'll see potential damage to aircraft left in hangars. Look closer and you'll understand most were QF-16s, that is, target drones made from old F-16s. Also a few twin-turboprop aircraft. The most popular picture is of an aircraft flipped upside down. A close look shows it's an old Communist Block fighter in a aircraft park. Not a flyable asset. The F-22s and F-35s stationed along the Florida Gulf Coast were flown to Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, and other northern locations. If an aircraft was unflyable, then it was hangered. I didn't see any F-22s in the video I found on-line. The Air Force may have edited them out, of . And no, the Air Force probably won't comment on the number of aircraft damaged or destroyed immediately because it effects readiness and national security.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Exactly correct. There are always 'hangar queens' that get left behind during any aircraft evacuation. Once flyable assets are gone every other aircraft, including the drones you mention, get packed inside hangars. Given the mission of Tyndall you can expect lots of drones were inside those hangars. Funny, first post hurricane picture of Tyndall published here in Tampa was that aircraft from the Air Park.
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at 150 million per, there better not be any damaged!! pretty sure they had plenty of time to relocate them to Grand Forks AFB
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
There are always some 'hangar queens' that can't be evacuated for any number of reasons. If they can't fly they get sheltered in hangars so if a hangar gets damaged the aircraft in them are susceptible.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
SrA John Monette This new is part of the issue. Supply chain hasn't caught up with failure rates on specific parts. Manufactures make essentially a WAG on what and when parts will fail when creating bench stock for new aircraft. If some other part fails it may take a while to get them manufactured. Units will cannibalize to keep aircraft flying, but aircraft awaiting parts and those that have been cannibalize from simply can't be flown out during an evacuation.
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