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Thursday, October 15, 2009

New Fighter Jets Chronically Short of Spare Parts

Faced with a shortage of spare parts for its newest F-15K fighter jets, the Air Force is resorting to stripping components from one jet and putting them into another to keep them flying.

F-15K EagleAccording to documents the Air Force submitted to Grand National Party lawmaker Kim Jang-soo, who heads the National Assembly's Defense Committee, the rate of availability of new spare parts for F-15K fighter jets was 16 percent last year, compared to between 70 to 80 percent for other fighter planes.

The so-called "concurrent spare parts" or CSP rate shows how much out of a year's worth of spare parts in inventory can be used immediately. Sixteen percent is spectacularly low.

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