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Interesting news on the F-22
redneck
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Posted: Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 04:44 PM UTC
Just wondering if any of you guys had seen this.

http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2006/04/why_is_this_man.html

So is this the air forces version of locking the keys in the car?
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Posted: Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 01:52 AM UTC
My older brother's a Chief down at Nellis where they did a lot of testing with the F-22, and he knows a lot of the NCOs who serviced them. They all said that while it might be a good in the air, the F-22 is a gigantic piece of junk from a maintenance standpoint. The low observability requirements are so high and so easily downgraded to unacceptable levels that it's a huge pain to deal with. The planes spent more time in maintenance they they did in the air. I guess this is another example of how that plane might be more trouble than it's worth.