{"id":135195,"date":"2022-02-04T05:01:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T13:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/a-bunch-of-f-35s-are-just-sitting-around-without-their-engines"},"modified":"2022-02-04T05:01:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T13:01:27","slug":"a-bunch-of-f-35s-are-just-sitting-around-without-their-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/a-bunch-of-f-35s-are-just-sitting-around-without-their-engines","title":{"rendered":"A Bunch of F-35s Are Just Sitting Around Without Their Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-bunch-of-f-35s-are-just-sitting-around-without-their-engines.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You kinda need those.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The U.S. Air Force is down dozens of flyable F-35s due to a maintenance and spare parts crunch. An official in charge of the F-35 program says nearly one in seven of the Air Force\u2019s F-35s can\u2019t fly at all, with some planes awaiting engines that need to be refurbished sooner than anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>Air Force Lt. Gen Eric Fick, the head of the F-35 program office, says 46 F-35s worldwide are in \u201cMission Impaired Capability Awaiting Parts\u201d (MICAP) status, meaning they\u2019re unable to fly missions until fixed. The breakdown, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/Military.com\">Military.com<\/a>, includes 41 U.S. Air Force F-35As, one Navy F-35C, and one Marine Corps F-35. Three more aircraft belonging to international F-35 customers are MICAP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You kinda need those. The U.S. Air Force is down dozens of flyable F-35s due to a maintenance and spare parts crunch. An official in charge of the F-35 program says nearly one in seven of the Air Force\u2019s F-35s can\u2019t fly at all, with some planes awaiting engines that need to be refurbished sooner [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}