Could this delay the invasion or does it only affect air operations?
Well, I know that one thing is linked to the other, but I mean, is it going to be serious enough to delay a ground operation?
AWACS are spread over the world though and they need to keep some of these for maintenance. The readiness rate, meaning the ones that can fly missions is 56% which is actually rather high. Still what that means is they might have dozens, but that means only one dozen that are mission capable.
It depends, if the US wants to air drop paratroopers in. If so, they probably move them further away to Jordan or maybe even some base in Europe. But I doubt this would delay operations. It might be better to just drop them and then move the planes out of harms way.
But the AWACS is not closely related to ground operations. So the loss of the Sentry is not going to hurt that much.
Could this delay the invasion or does it only affect air operations?
Well, I know that one thing is linked to the other, but I mean, is it going to be serious enough to delay a ground operation?
they have dozen of these
AWACS are spread over the world though and they need to keep some of these for maintenance. The readiness rate, meaning the ones that can fly missions is 56% which is actually rather high. Still what that means is they might have dozens, but that means only one dozen that are mission capable.
It’s not a crisis but it hurts
Potentially, if they don’t have enough other AWACS aircraft, and don’t have the coverage they would like.
At best, it’s half a billion dollars down the tube.
It depends, if the US wants to air drop paratroopers in. If so, they probably move them further away to Jordan or maybe even some base in Europe. But I doubt this would delay operations. It might be better to just drop them and then move the planes out of harms way.
But the AWACS is not closely related to ground operations. So the loss of the Sentry is not going to hurt that much.