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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Hopefully the CF-18's can stay up in the air for another decade, with the microfractures and the difficulty in keeping its avionics up to NATO standards its going to be a tough decade.
The Lightning II is going to be a multigenerational leap forward from the concepts of battlefield efficiency, payload and stealth. While its not as stealthy as the nighthawk was or the B2, it does look like a small bird on radar.
Great deal.
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It is also a replacement for the harrier is it not? I saw somewhere that it has vertical takeoff which makes it new workhorse for planes.