Airforce may be be going out of business

[Penta]

Or stop buying spare parts and other items they no longer need. CBS had a story the other day about military stockpiling of obsolete spare parts, and the AF was the worst abuser with something like $18 billion or so this past year. Haven't run this through the "fact check" system, but it does square with some things I used to see on various bases.

Define obsolete? If it's still in service *somewhere* in the US inventory, the military needs to have spares for it.

Re the V22: Matt may be right. Maybe the aircraft isn't ready for primetime.

However, the V22 is probably better thought of as something like the first tanks. Not necessarily combat-effective or useful themselves, but necessary to prove the technology and figure out where we want to go with RDA activities.