The U.S. Air Force Is Spending Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars To Airlift Two Dodge Chargers To The U.K.

Warzone/The Drive: Wait, The USAF Is Spending Hundreds Of Thousands Airlifting Two Dodge Chargers To The UK?

The Air Force says it might just source chase cars there if it can't cut through various red tape to fly them. Why isn't it doing that already?

Two Dodge Charger chase cars the Air Force uses to help U-2 Dragon Lady spy planes land are hung up in red tape at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey as the service works to clear them to fly aboard one its transport aircraft to RAF Mildenhall in the United Kingdom. It's not entirely clear how this has happened or why the Air Force has chosen what will invariably be the very costly option of shipping these cars via airlifter across the pond, to begin with.

The Air Force first revealed the cars' predicament in a news story on Aug. 21, 2019. It's not clear when the cars first arrived at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JBMDL), but they were there at least as of Aug. 12. Four days later, the 305th Aerial Port Squadron received orders to get them ready to go to RAF Mildenhall. An unspecified support truck is also part of the prospective shipment.

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Update: The Air Force is trying to figure out how to get 2 Dodge muscle cars across the Atlantic so they can help U-2 spy planes land (Business Insider/Air Force Times).

WNU Editor: There are a lot of fast cars in the U.K. that one can easily buy (and it will be cheaper) than shipping them via air transport from the U.S. to the U.K..

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