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Fred J. McCall wrote:

Scott Ferrin wrote:

:The "Super" Hornet isn't a stealth aircraft

For some definition of 'stealth'. It is billed as 'affordable
stealth'.

They did some airframe reshaping and added some radar absorbing
material, which takes the F-18 E/F out of the "barn door" category and
into something like the Eurofighter's RCS category.

Still an order of magnitude or so to go to get to the F-35 RCS range.

:and if they want stealth the F-35 is pretty much their only choice.
:Not only that the F-35 is suppose to have a significantly longer
:range than the Hornet.

But not longer range than the Super Hornet. Don't confuse the two
aircraft.

Um... the F-35 is going to have about a 50% better combat radius than
the F-18E/F, according to the Navy.

600 nm for the F-35 versus 410 nm for the Super Hornet versus about 290
nm for the older Hornets.

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