War Drive/The Drive: Here's A Handy Inventory List Of USAF Aircraft And Their Mission Capable Rates
The list gives a historical snapshot over a number of years detailing the reliability of each Air Force aircraft and its quantity in inventory.
The reliability of various USAF aircraft has always been a hot topic within defense circles, but the reality of keeping different platforms in the air has made mainstream news as of late. At the same time, the average person seems to be a bit surprised by the actual number of different types of aircraft in the Air Force's inventory. So a simple chart showing both metrics would be very helpful, and that's exactly what our friends over at Scramble posted on their Facebook page recently.
The list, which was sourced from the USAF'S data by the Air Force Times, includes four years of mission capable rate (aircraft can fly with all combat systems functional) data as well as the historical change for each platform, for better or worse. The inventory as of 2017 for each aircraft is also posted in its own column.
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