F15s Showing their age ! !

[Vulture 01]

Just a personal view, you know. I spent many years doing accident and incident investigation as a secondary task in the day job.
People are just being cautious and taking care of the (very expensive) kit they are responsible for. Look at the attrition rate for all military aircraft over the last twenty years and see how much it has gone down. Being cautious saves lives and equipment especially as you can learn from the bit that went wrong.

[plmc135]

The availability of spares is a problem for some USAF fleets, especially for those built during the 80s and 90s (F-22, B-2, B-1, F-15 etc.). Those fleets don't have a Boneyard with hundreds of spares in them nor do they have industry partners who can still make some of the much needed replacement parts. Older fleets don't have it easy either albeit for other reasons, but it's easier to get or make a replacement carburettor for an Austin Healey than it is an engine management unit for a 1989 BMW etc.

This shortage of spares within some fleets doesn't mean safety is compromised but it does mean reliability has dropped.

According to the AMARC Experience website there are (at the time of the latest available data) 157 F-15's present of which two thirds were C/D models. Plenty of spares there.

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The availability of spares is a problem for some USAF fleets, especially for those built during the 80s and 90s (F-22, B-2, B-1, F-15 etc.). Those fleets don't have a Boneyard with hundreds of spares in them nor do they have industry partners who can still make some of the much needed replacement parts. Older fleets don't have it easy either albeit for other reasons, but it's easier to get or make a replacement carburettor for an Austin Healey than it is an engine management unit for a 1989 BMW etc.

This shortage of spares within some fleets doesn't mean safety is compromised but it does mean reliability has dropped.

According to the AMARC Experience website there are (at the time of the latest available data) 157 F-15's present of which two thirds were C/D models. Plenty of spares there.

Apologies, I didn't qualify the model, I was told it was the Es which were having major spares issues about 5 years ago.

[Vulcanone]

As luck would happen.... At least some ANG units in CONUS will get F-15EX. Oh for a batch of them to eventually replace the oldest F-15Es