• Estiar@sh.itjust.worksM
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      8 hours ago

      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