Its always good to remember, don’t put all your eggs in one basket:
“On October 10th 2018 a van parked at a motel adjacent to Tyndall AFB shot mortars into a hanger where 55 f-22’s were stored. The mortar team was able to completely destroy the hanger. The simple but deadly attack lasted six minutes. This of course did not happen. Hurricane Michael did the attack. They moved all but 17 of the planes…
“How could this happen? Any Jihaddi/Chinese attack team could have wiped out 1/3 of our precious F-22’s…“
That was from the comments of the blog Navy Matters.
Wikipedia says the F-22 program costed $66.7 billion in 2011 dollars. 187 operational aircraft were produced. That makes $356 million per copy. Let’s leave aside the many billions of dollars devoted to modernizing the F-22. We find that $20 billion in investment–one-third of our most capable fighter aircraft–is sitting in one hanger.
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| F-22s at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. Some valuable eggs all in one basket. |
ComNavOps responds:
“This was one of the issues at Pearl Harbor. Instead of dispersing the aircraft they were clustered for security reasons and, therefore, presented lucrative targets for Japanese aircraft.“
Returning us to the classic dilemma. It always sounds cheaper to consolidate. One hanger, one security team, one supply-chain, and so forth. But at what cost?
Perhaps the problem is an administrative focus on money costs rather than opportunity costs.
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