It is clear that the U.S. management of the aircraft boneyard in Iran is almost non-existent, as Iran continuously purchases parts of F14 fighters from there. A large number of internal personnel have been constantly selling the parts from the aircraft boneyard for their own profit. It should be noted that those retired U.S. military aircraft, although older models are not worth mentioning, newer models such as F14, F15, F16, and F18 are still quite powerful aircraft.
The parts of various aircraft are highly sought after, especially by Iran, which has been scouring the world for F14 fighter parts and has been quite successful. Later, the United States found out that F14 fighter parts were continuously flowing to Iran, so they strengthened the management. However, it is evident that when the U.S. military discovered this fact, the internal parts of the F14 fighters had probably already been nearly stripped away.
From this, it can be seen that only a few of the wreckage in these U.S. aircraft boneyards could actually take off, and some could not even take off. Imagine a car left there for several weeks; it would be difficult to start. If the fighter jets in the aircraft boneyards were left for several years or even decades, trying to restart them and put them back into combat would be a joke with the pilots' lives. Because the parts and wiring would have aged.
If they want to use them, they must replace everything, and the cost would be higher than just building new ones, which would be safer. Therefore, the fighter jets in the U.S. aircraft boneyards are basically unusable, which is a fact. In addition, the internal parts of these aircraft are likely already completely stripped by internal personnel. When the U.S. checks, these retired planes may have very few that can fly.
In recent years, the corruption within the U.S. has been evident, and the aircraft boneyard is no exception. A large number of parts have been sold for profit. So the initial plan of the U.S. government was to store these retired fighter jets in the aircraft boneyard and reactivate them when needed, but this idea is basically unachievable.
Because a large number of parts have been sold, whether they can fly is uncertain. Moreover, the scale of modern warfare has been greatly suppressed. If the U.S. active aircraft are all destroyed, and they need to activate the backup or retired aircraft, the U.S. is likely close to defeat.
Therefore, the people managing the U.S. aircraft boneyards understand this well, and they take the attitude of "if you don't take it, you won't get it," and they sell the parts as much as possible, because others don't know. No one is watching the aircraft boneyard closely. So it's simple, on every link of the interest chain, there are interested personnel, and no one will actively reveal the problem.
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