"Three F-22s are still in Moron having gone technical (one didn’t take off at all and the other two returned back once airborne as “TABOR 16” and “TABOR 25”). Although the technical issues suffered by the three Raptors left behind are not clear, the fact that these did not join the rest of the F-22s deploying to the ME reminds us about the MC (Mission Capable) numbers for the Raptor fleet, quite far from the 80 percent goal by the 2019 Fiscal Year. MC numbers for the F-22 fleet have been notoriously low, typically hovering around 50 percent according to Joseph Trevithick at The War Zone, with the rate of FMC (Full Mission Capable) aircraft (i.e. the percentage of the fleet that is, on average, capable of meeting all mission requirements), probably substantially lower than this."