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Israel Launched an Attack With 200 Fighters. Could the US?

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/u-s-ai...ess-slide/

The Air Force would only have 40 of its 52 operational fighter squadrons to draw from “in a crisis,” because 12 would have to be held back: six for stateside air defense commitments and six to be held in reserve “to keep China or Russia in check.” Each of the remaining 40 would only be expected to field 12 fighters, for a total 480 deployable fighters.
“Our fighters have a [mission capable] rate of just over 60 percent, which means, after landing in theater, just 288 of those 480 jets would be mission capable for a first ‘go,’” Venable said. Given the availability of spare parts, “the second ‘go’ would be reduced to just over 200 jets,” he said.
Pilot readiness is also a concern, Venable said. Fighter pilot flying hours have plunged o an average of 10-12 per month per pilot—about what Soviet pilots did in the Cold War era. In the 1980s and 90s, USAF pilots flew roughly twice as many. ridiculed by Air Force leaders at the time as woefully inadequate

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