220 | Robert Farley: Air Wars in Ukraine and Beyond
The Realignment
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Stealth Fighters Are Hard to Maintain, Right?
Stealth fighter requires a very specialized coating. It requires machine tooling that is primed to, youknow, absolute microscopic tolerances. And the coatings are hard to maintain. They're hard todo. You know, the flight hours for the aircraft are more expensive than for your generation of fighters. None of russia, china or the united states thought that you were going to have a war of the size where you would require hundreds, possibly thousands of fighters.
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