Unfit.

This is coolbert:

How the mighty have fallen! RAF British.

From WIZARD through Harry at Sharkhunters and as is germane to several prior blog entries here, here, here and here.

"KIWI. DODO. FLIGHTLESS BIRDS – One in three of the British Royal Air Force's (RAF) planes are 'unfit to fly.' Allegedly, around 142 of 434 aircraft are stashed away in the force's so-called ‘sustainment fleet,' essentially a storage place for out-of-action jets or those needing 'major repairs.'"

Among those front-line air superiority fighter warplanes such as the Eurofighter Typhoon consider also that percentage of aircraft not ready to either fly or be deployed into combat on an instantaneous basis worse than "one-in-three".

Such a situation not confined to the British either. Those European nations part and parcel of the NATO alliance their ready-to-go warplane fleet numbers in some cases far less than desirable. This is an across-the-board type of situation?

coolbert.