Firefinder
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But again a full fleet of 400 F22s neans that the current fleet of nearly 500 F15Cs.Well yeah, it's not just pilots though. It's also maintenance crews. E-6s through E-8s are becoming unicorns in AF maintenance groups because of poor retention and weak promotion. Limited job prospects, bad pay, etc. pushes people out. This is going to impact Raptor the hardest of all the airframes, besides maybe B-1, because Raptor has the most limited supply chain of spares and the hardest mission tasking.
Which mind you are freaking losing their wings mid-flight!
Would have been Retired back in 2015 at the latest. Leaving only the Strike Eagles in service.
Resulting in the personal shortage being a bit less then it is now in all regards.
Cause for as much of a maintenance hog the F22 is its still less then the nearly 50 year old airframes.
While the Spare part issues be non existing, or no worse as the F15Cs is due to have ACTUAL production numbers and not a glorified prototype run.
Resulting in all round better readiness and a fully modern fleet.