Thumpalumpacus
Major
How many Hornets were lost by the Navy in 2021 due to engine failures? Let's see some numbers.
Tomcat forever !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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How many Hornets were lost by the Navy in 2021 due to engine failures? Let's see some numbers.
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I dont know ask the navy
Thumpalumpacus
Major
There's that.
Thumpalumpacus
Major
That's not really convincing.
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Well i don know you should ask them
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
We could even save more money if we started rebuilding the F4F Wildcat and replaced all the fighters in the USN/USAF with it.
wuzak
Captain
There is the other argument, that having two engines means your are twice as likely to have an engine failure.
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Thumpalumpacus
Major
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Finally. We could reopen the Grumman plant at Bethpage!
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I'm telling you we need the tomcat back
Thumpalumpacus
Major
Corsairs were cooler --even funkier wing, you see -- as well as cheaper, and don't need a catapult for the Ford-class carrier. They could also carry a 20-mm cannon and rockets.
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But you dont have AIM-54s
Thumpalumpacus
Major
I bet we could figure out a rig. I mean, them sailors can get clever at times. Hell, they even attacked a U-boat with potatoes at one time.
FLYBOYJ
"THE GREAT GAZOO"
Once again my young friend you need to crack the books open! How many engines does the F-18 have?
FLYBOYJ
"THE GREAT GAZOO"
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SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
I feel your pain, honest. The Tomcat is just on the other side of obsolete. A hot, still capable plane (ask a veteran Iraqi Air Force pilot) BUT the other guys now have its number. I felt the same way when the USN replaced the Phantom with some ridiculous high-tech tactical Tinkertoy called the F-14. The new plane turned out to be better than the F-4 for a changing environment. Things change. The USN needed the Tomcat then. I thought replacing the F-14 with the Hornet was purely cost cutting leaving us with a lesser plane. It may be a slower plane but it ain't that slower. Aerial conflict is always evolving. Technology got us a very capable successor to the F-14 in the Super Bug.
It took some patient convincing by FlyboyJ to get me to understand that the F-35 is a very capable airplane despite it not being what I think a fighter should be. FJ has a soft spot for the F/A-18 too but with the F-35, it's even better. It ain't the days of Secretary John Lehman pushing for the 600 ship navy. It's more like Skynet than the Red Baron.
That's a good analogy if ever there was one.
You don't need as many aircraft as the enemy, you just need every aircraft you have knowing exactly what the enemy is gonna do before he does it.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
And you need as reliable a plane as you can get.
