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Ready times for EH-160C Quick Fix and F-117A

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 9:04 am
by incredibletwo
Hi all!

The ready times for the EH-60C Quick Fix seem off. 20hrs for a ferry mission and 20hrs for an offensive ECM mission.

Also, should it take 21hrs to load 2 bombs onto, route plan, and brief the aircrew of, an F-117A? I understand that it's supposed to be only used at night but still, to lock in it's availability with a 21hr turnaround time seems a bit much. [:)]

Cheers!

RE: Ready times for EH-160C Quick Fix and F-117A

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 11:47 am
by mikmykWS
Added a request to adjust EH-60C ready times.

F-117's generally flew 1 sortie per night in every conflict they contributed too. If you read some of the post Gulf War assessments one of the bigger criticism was a very slow and tedious mission planning process. (Conduct of Gulf War to Congress is a great place to start).

If you can find any data supporting more than one sortie please do post.

Thanks!

Mike


RE: Ready times for EH-160C Quick Fix and F-117A

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 11:59 am
by incredibletwo
I had read something similar to that. Anyway, fair enough. [:)]

Thanks for the EH-60C check too [8D]

RE: Ready times for EH-160C Quick Fix and F-117A

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 7:59 am
by ComDev
Fixed the EH-60C. Also reduced the F-117 ready time to 20hrs so that you can fly up to 4hr missions without 'skewing' the launch times for each day.