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Originally Posted by swiss
From what I heard the Gripen and our F18 will share the same engine, obviously the F18 get a F414 upgrade in the near future(?).
Furthermore buying new F18 is going to be an adventure, the Swiss F18 are made in Switzerland with crapload of swiss-custom parts, they replaced everything with titanium.
I mean, that thing is tough enough for carrier operations, but not tough enough for the Swiss? Ok...
Twin engine also means double fuel consumption and double maintenance - sorry, there's no cash for this kind of luxury.
Concerning the future: We are considering to switch to only one model - the Gripen.
And the F35, well, that thing is joke.
"Let the missiles do the turning", lol
What if they fail?
You can't run
You can't outturn your enemy
Check out this link
http://www.ausairpower.net/jsf.html |
anyway, i belive in some few decades we will see not few airarms flying only the F-35 as manned jets.......
the tactical thinking , at least in europe,cwent away from full scale airwar to a tatical one were you throw smart bombs form medium height on some 'tribes' . if this will still fit in 50 years, nobody can say.
running a serious airforce is a very expensiv affair nowadays.