Despite facing retirement within this decade, the U.S. Marine Corps’ AV-8B is going strong and the mission capable rate is now at 83 percent thanks to the hard work from the folks at Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support’s (NAVSUP WSS) AV-8B Harrier Integrated Weapon Support Team (IWST).
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U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class John Taucher., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
As an aging platform, the AV-8B suffers from obsolescence and diminishing manufacturing sources or sources of supply. Yet the NAVSUP WSS AV-8 IWST was able to maintained backorders in the double digits thanks to creative initiatives such as standing up new repair capabilities and reducing demand by extending component survivability.
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