{"id":144481,"date":"2024-10-28T07:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T21:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-reasons-us-military-tactical-aircraft-failed-meet-operational-targets\/"},"modified":"2024-10-28T07:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T21:30:12","slug":"gao-report-5-reasons-the-us-militarys-tactical-aircraft-fail-to-meet-mission-capable-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=144481","title":{"rendered":"GAO Report: 5 Reasons The US Military&#8217;s Tactical Aircraft Fail To Meet Mission Capable Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/gao-23-106217.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Government Accountability Office<\/a> (GAO) has stated that of 49 aircraft examined, only four met their annual mission-capable goal in most of the years between 2011 and 2021. Maintaining         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2030951\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/military-aircraft-operational-readiness-extreme-climates\/\" >military aircraft is extremely complicated and even need to be maintained in extreme climates<\/a><\/span>. Overall, aircraft readiness rates have declined, and all three services operating tactical aircraft (            <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span>,             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58652\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>US Navy<\/span><\/span>, and Marines) are struggling to meet their targets. Here are five reasons why US tactical aircraft have failed to meet mission readiness targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All service branches struggle to meet fighter jet readiness targets, and the issues are manifold and complicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,628,567,423,1328,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-guides","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144482,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144481\/revisions\/144482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}