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I wouldn’t expect jets from other countries to be any different. Aircraft in general get a lot of inspection and maintenance. Military jets planes push the limits of what their materials and systems can handle, and it takes a toll.

Idk how credible the site below is, but they claim the F-16 averages 15 hours of inspections ad maintenance for every hour of flight time. Also that military jets are generally only mission-ready about 50%-75% of the time, which means they spend an awful lot of their useful lives in the inspection and maintenance queues:
https://simpleflying.com/military-aircraft-maintenance/

Spoiler alert: the drain is just a straight pipe to a bucket below the counter.

I empathize with your situation. I’m in the same boat. Even with hundreds of subscribers, if everyone’s lurking then the community gets stale and withers. Becoming a one-person content machine isn’t sustainable.

Though on a brighter note, with this post you just gained a subscriber to your community. Browsing through it reminded me of how fun geocaching was. I just dusted off my old geocaching.com account from a decade ago. I’ll have to take my kids out and see what we can find!