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The Decimation Of Tyndall Air Base’s F-22 Fleet Couldn’t Have Come At Worse Time

Task & Purpose website - Over blown hype...

" According to reporting from Foreign Policy, “as many as” 17 Raptors “may be damaged or destroyed.” Indeed, satellite photos revealed the wreckage of several of the pricey stealth fighters among the debris."

 

First post in first link in that statement, 22 hours ago:  "UPDATE: an Air Force official tells me USAF assessed the damage at Tyndall today, including F-22s that weathered the storm. All aircraft are intact and initial indications are “promising.” "

Second link to  another Task & Purpose article, satellite photos show the upside-down F-15!

 

SMH

 

The good news is that they linked to that first piece (which refutes their article) saying that the F-22s are apparently OK.

:cheers:

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Florida Senator Bill Nelson states Tyndall will be rebuilt. 

 

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Asked about the political conversation surrounding hurricane recovery, Nelson said “Now is not a time for politics.”

 

http://news.wjct.org/post/sen-bill-nelson-tyndall-air-force-base-will-be-rebuilt-visits-big-bend-counties-monday

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TYNDALL AFB — All of the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets left behind when Hurricane Michael hit Tyndall Air Force Base last month will be flown off the base for repairs, according to Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan.  Shanahan said the last of the aircraft will be flown off the base, under their own power, through the weekend. All of the F-22s are expected to be in new locations by Monday night.  “That’s fantastic news,” Shanahan said.
Shanahan’s comments came during a Thursday video conference call with a half-dozen reporters from around the country, part of a new Pentagon outreach effort.

News that the F-22s are leaving Tyndall justifies the optimism expressed previously by Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein and Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright about the condition of the aircraft that could not evacuate the base due to maintenance or safety issues.  In a joint statement issued a few days after the hurricane, the three leaders said that although the Tyndall flightline sustained significant damage, damage to the aircraft “was less than we feared and preliminary indications are promising.”  According to various reports, 33 of Tyndall’s F-22s were flown out in advance of Hurricane Michael, which made landfall Oct. 10. A total of 55 F-22s are assigned to Tyndall, but the exact number of aircraft left behind remains a mystery.  “We’re still not discussing numbers due to operational security,” Leah Garton, spokeswoman for the Air Force’s Air Combat Command, said Thursday. Garton did say the F-22s have been flying out of Tyndall for some time now. All but one of the F-22s are now, or will be, at Virginia’s Joint Base Langley-Eustis for maintenance, with the remaining jet at Utah’s Hill AFB.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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