F-16 vs. F-15 and F-35 vs. F-22 maintanance

[energo]

Hi,

Anyone know of any comparisons or figures available on the maintainance and flying cost, tools and crew requirements of these jets?


Regards,
Bjørnar
Oslo, Norway

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[F-15 Eagle]

Hi,

Anyone know of any comparisons or figures available on the maintainance and flying cost, tools and crew requirements of these jets?

I have no idea, but I herd it cost less money and requires fewer people to maintain the F-22 and F-35 than it would with the F-15 and F-16, because they are much newer jets or something like that. I am sure someone else on this forum knows more about this than I do.

 

[Ths]

If we take it generally!

Maintainance as a function of equipment age/usage is what is popularly know at the "Bathtub" curve.
Initial maintainance is very high, bugs have to be sorted out, to flimsy parts have to be redesigned, personel have to be trained and that sort of thing. After a short while the maintainence requirement drop down to a low level from which it rises slowly at first and end then more and more rapidly towards the end of the service life.

I haven't seen the comparison with the new annd old fighters in this case: But if they compare the minimum level of the new with the realised level of the old - that contentions is almost always correct.

By the way: It is a relatively new situation, that airforce equipment wear out before it is obsolete.

 

[eaf-f16]

If we take it generally!

Maintainance as a function of equipment age/usage is what is popularly know at the "Bathtub" curve.
Initial maintainance is very high, bugs have to be sorted out, to flimsy parts have to be redesigned, personel have to be trained and that sort of thing. After a short while the maintainence requirement drop down to a low level from which it rises slowly at first and end then more and more rapidly towards the end of the service life.

I haven't seen the comparison with the new annd old fighters in this case: But if they compare the minimum level of the new with the realised level of the old - that contentions is almost always correct.

By the way: It is a relatively new situation, that airforce equipment wear out before it is obsolete.

Yeah, I read they recently found panels on the F-22 that were rusted and that they were going to redesign them.

I'll try to find the link.

Edit: Found it!

Apparently two-thirds of the F-22 fleet suffers from corrosion.

http://www.f-16.net/news_article2579.html