The U.S. Air Force is the world's largest and most powerful theoretical combat force. At present, the total number of personnel in the US Air Force has reached more than 510,000, and there are also 177,000 in the Air National Guard. More than 5,400 manned aircraft are equipped, and there are nearly 180 strategic bombers alone. In addition, the U.S. Air National Guard also has nearly 2,000 fighters of various types, which is evident in its huge scale. It is also worth mentioning that the size of the fighter aircraft owned by the U.S. Naval Air Force is also quite large, reaching more than 3,700. This scale is second only to the United States Air Force itself and the Chinese and Russian air forces, making it the fourth largest air force in the world. Therefore, the United States can be called the world's largest military aircraft power.
(U.S. Army Aircraft Elephant Walk)
However, combat effectiveness on paper is one thing, and actual combat effectiveness is another. Although the U.S. military has many "core technologies", the touching rate of fighter planes makes it impossible for them to "run with full blood." No, the famous American Accountability Bureau has come to fight the "world's largest military aircraft power" again, and criticized it cruelly! According to the latest report on the "War Zone" channel of the US "TheDrive" website, just a few days ago the US Accountability Office (GAO) released the "2011-2019 Fiscal Year U.S. Aircraft Reliability Report". This survey report shows that the U.S. military in the aforementioned years Only three of the 46 military aircraft currently in service have met the readiness requirements, which means that 93% of the military aircraft have failed the readiness survey.
(Investigation report issued by the U.S. Accountability Office)
Among the 46 types of U.S. military aircraft that are in active service, only the U.S. Navy’s E-6B "Mercury" doomsday aircraft, the U.S. Navy’s EP-3E electronic reconnaissance aircraft and the U.S. Air Force The UH-1N helicopter meets the combat readiness requirements. The U.S. Accountability Office quantified the combat readiness level of these fighters, with a maximum score of 9 points, and a score of 5 or more is a pass (5 out of 9 years to meet the combat readiness requirements). The E-6B "Mercury" scored 5 points, just scratching the pass line, the EP-3E electronic reconnaissance aircraft scored 6 points (it was the one who directed the Nanhai collision incident in 2001), and the UH-1N helicopter scored unexpectedly. Reached a full score of 9 points. However, it is not surprising that this helicopter has the highest attendance rate among all types of military aircraft of the United States Air Force. There is no one. The United States Air Force uses it to transport ballistic missile duty personnel. Therefore, it must be on-call.
(the F-22 in the survey report has a score of 0, which means that no one of the nine years of the F22's compliance rate is up to the standard)
However, the scores of other US military aircraft are terrible. The 0 and 3 points are the most. Many U.S. fighters that are usually familiar even score 0 points. For example, the B-1B "Lancer" strategic bomber, the F/A-18E/F "Super Hornet" carrier-based fighter jet (the strange thing is that the attendance rate of the U.S. Navy carrier-based aircraft is not low, this can also be 0 points It's very magical), F-15C/D multi-role fighter, F-16 fighter and F-22 "Raptor" stealth fighter and so on. In addition, the F-35A fighter has a score of only two points, while the B-52H and B-2 strategic bombers have a score of three points. In short, it is a U.S. military aircraft with a high appearance rate, even a qualified aircraft. No.
(F-35C fighter)
In fact, as early as the Trump era's first Secretary of Defense Mattis was in charge of the Pentagon, it was an open secret that the proper rate of US military fighters was low. Mattis once said that by 2019, he would increase the accuracy of the US military's fighter planes to more than 80%. As a result, he was ousted by Trump before he could complete this goal. Take the F-35 series fighters as an example. Even the F-35C with the best compliance rate has not reached 60%. Although the F-35 fighter has been mass-produced for many years, it has not yet entered the stage of full-speed production because of the constant exposure of "Class A defects". F-35 is also the epitome of the entire US military.
(B2, F15C, F35B formation flying)
It is worth noting that the statistical scope of this survey report is limited to the situation of US military aircraft between 2011 and 2019, and by 2020, the US military will almost All the main fighters fell once, and no one was spared from F-16 to F-22. On the impact of the new crown epidemic and Trump's mischiefUnder non-action, the current state of US military readiness is getting worse and worse, and this situation is bound to continue for a long time.
