comparing russian and US jet engines OH times

Interesting, since the USN decommissioned all of its afloat IMA s and most
(if not all) of its shore based IMA s. This despite the fact that the vast
majority of ships now have "aircraft" engines, the LM2500 and derivatives.

Suspect that the operating cycle for ships is about the same as for airliners
or even transcontinental pipeline pump power units that alsu use variations of
aircraft turbine engines. They tend to run forever since they are started and
run at the same power setting all the time. When they accumulate enough time
or on-condition mauintenance analysis indicates they are losing efficiency
(increased fuel flow and increasing temps in the hot section) they are pulled
and sent to depot. The maintenance concept is usually driven by usage.
Fighters tend to use up life in their engines far quicker than any other
application and require more maintenance. Most of what I have offered has more
to do with fighter engines than anything else since the originator of the
thread mentioned the Su-30.

"Pete" wrote in
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"The Enlightenment" wrote

The Russian literacy is probably much better than US literacy.

Right.

In 20 yrs in the USAF, I came across 1 (and only one) guy who
was functionally illiterate. Reasonably smart, but the poor guy
could not read.

How does this contrast with Russian conscripts who may be drawn
from a wide range of native languages?

Pete

Russia: 99.6%
US: 97%

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...rs.html#People
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...us.html#People



Regards...

"Bjørnar Bolsøy" wrote in message
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"Pete" wrote in
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"The Enlightenment" wrote

The Russian literacy is probably much better than US literacy.

Right.

In 20 yrs in the USAF, I came across 1 (and only one) guy who
was functionally illiterate. Reasonably smart, but the poor guy
could not read.

How does this contrast with Russian conscripts who may be drawn
from a wide range of native languages?

Pete

Russia: 99.6%
US: 97%

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...rs.html#People
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...us.html#People


I wouldn't call 2% "much better". But the question still remains.

The CIA Factbook defines it as "age 15 and over can read and write "
I understand Russians are/were to be educated in the 'official language'.
But is that really true? An otherwise highly intelligent, literate conscript
mechanic, who was not educated in the Mother tongue, would still not be able
to reliably maintain a modern tank or aircraft.

If I were plunked down in the Finnish, Brazilian or Russian AF at age 18, I
wouldn't expect to do a very good job.

Pete