An F22A belonging to the Air Force of the National Guard, a superpower, crashed suddenly. It must be made clear here that although the National Guard is a reserve military force in addition to the four major branches of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and is mainly responsible for the defense and security tasks of the superpower, the National Guard has never considered itself inferior, so the National Guard can be regarded as the fifth largest branch of the armed forces and is still part of the regular US military. As a result, the National Guard is also equipped with top-of-the-line weapons systems, from the M1A2 main battle tank to the F22A. These weapon systems are also first-hand weapons that are sent directly from the manufacturer to the active divisions of the National Guard, and are by no means second-hand goods that have been eliminated by the other four major branches of the US military, including the Navy, Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps. It is absolutely impossible to expect any of the five major US military companies to be equipped with second-hand weapons used by other branches of the military! IN THEIR EYES TO EACH OTHER, THIS IS SIMPLY A REAL PUBLIC HUMILIATION, AND THEY WILL BE REGARDED AS THE STEPMOTHER YANG. So within all the U.S. military,
There has never been such a thing as "patience." If there are replacement aircraft, artillery, tanks, or even main warships, they will either be refurbished and exported to the outside world; Or they can be discarded directly in the graveyard of the old weapon and let it degrade naturally. This is also the root of the existence of thousands of old aircraft in any aircraft graveyard of the superpowers. Therefore, the F22A crashed by the National Guard Air Force basically does not have the theory that the body is aging and backward, and it is also aging in sync with the erosion of the US Air Force's F22A fleet with the erosion of the years. So what is the special significance of this latest crash? Specifically, this thing is not big, but it is not small. It is not a big deal, mainly because everyone has long been accustomed to the "law" of an average of 1 or 2 F22A crashes per year. There will never be a decade ago when the crash of an F22A like an alien fighter was a big deal. And if you want to say that things are not small, then this is the 8th "officially" crashed of the F22A fleet! formal
Only 187 F22A were produced in the service version, and at least 7 completely crashed in the past. As a result, the U.S. Air Force, including the National Guard Air Force, still claims that the remaining fleet of F22A is an approximate round number of 180 aircraft. And after this crash, even this integer of 180 cannot be ensured. Since the large-area test flights, the total number of crashes of the F22A has significantly exceeded 8 aircraft. However, there were a few crashes that were not "complete crashes" but were abdominal abrasions caused by improper takeoff, so they could be largely repaired. But with this addition, there have been 8 shattered falls, plus the actual crashes that caught fire, which led to only 179 even on paper. The question is whether there are really 179 F22A that can fly into the sky so far, and then participate in air combat? It's absolutely impossible! Even from 2011, the F22A has been completely shut down for 13 years. At the same time, it also means the complete disconnection of spare parts. It can only be continuously disassembled from some parts of the body that cannot fly to protect a small part;
A mechage that can barely fly. As early as 6 years ago, at least 60 F22As at a base in Florida could not quickly move to avoid hurricanes, resulting in more than a dozen being injured by falling buildings. These 60 are obviously donors of "parts" that can no longer fly. And today, 6 years later, there will be 80 to 100 F22As that cannot fly. As for those that can still be lifted into the air to fight. If you can have one-third of the 179 planes, you can count it as burning incense!