Danger Room had a couple of articles on the current state of our most advanced fighter planes...
Air Force to Stealth Fighter Pilots: Get Used to Coughing Fits "Those admissions, buried in newly released Congressional records, represent the latest twist in the years-long saga of the F-22′s faulty oxygen system, which since at least 2008 has been choking pilots, leading to confusion, memory loss and blackouts — combined known as hypoxia — that may have contributed to at least one fatal crash. Ground crews have also reported growing sick while working around F-22s whose engines are running."
Engine Crack Grounds Pentagon's Entire Fleet of F-35 Stealth Fighters "The U.S. military’s entire fleet of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters has been grounded, owing to a crack in the engine of one jet. This is at least the fourth full or partial stand-down of the F-35, the Pentagon’s main future fighter, in just the last two and a half years."
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