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Originally Posted by dammage79
Super Hornet was the last Jet I was hoping the country would buy. Even if I figured it would be the one they ended up with. why mess with something so familiar. The cost to retrain is non existent unlike the Grypon, Eurofighter , Rafale and F-35.
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How do you figure that, the planes airframe is different as are the sensors and the fly by wire control system. It uses different engines as well.
As much as its called a hornet, its a different aircraft doesn't handle the same way or maneuver the same way.
The retraining or transition would be similar to if a pilot went to any new aircraft. As well the ground crew and maintenance side of things would have to go through a new aircraft transition.