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Old 15th Oct 2018, 22:54
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Melchett01
 
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Originally Posted by NutLoose
Looks like an F22 in that shed

There’s a lot doing the rounds on social media at the moment about this. I don’t know the ground truth but reports suggest only 30+ of the F22s were flown out ahead of time. The rest, potentially around 20 or so were thought to be still in the hangars when it all got a bit windy.

Thats an awful lot of very expensive jets potentially scrapped in minutes in the worst case. Points to serious serviceability and poor availability rates if so many were u/s at one time. Questions no doubt to be asked if they have lost double digits worth of airframes.
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