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BombTaxi said:Yeh, the Navy ones were wierd. The Wildcat of WW2 fame was the F4F...but the Phantom (of Vietnam fame) was the F4H, while the Corsair was the F4U...then post 1962, F-4 referred to the Phantom only. Odd system!
plan_D said:The F-117 is designated a fighter because they want to please the pilots into thinking they're flying a fighter. The correct designation would be A-117 or F/A-117.
HealzDevo said:Still you get what I am saying don't you? There was apparently an idea to make a type called the Seahawk for the US Navy but apparently the project was cancelled. At least nothing further seems to have come of it... Also there is the B-1B Lancer. The B-2 Spirit. The B-52 which seems to be totally out of wack with the rest of the sequence. Probably changed so the US forces could claim that some embarassing problems didn't occur like the B-70 Valikyrie, and those Pogos and other types. Wipe the record and start off at zero and try and keep those types from becoming public knowledge. If that was the intention in this day and age they have failed, to keep these types information under lock and key.