Shame, because it was still a relevant plane, a lot of navy pilots protested its retirement

The f18 hornet is going away soon

Yeah, F-18's while still good, they age quickly

The super hornets are gonna be here for a while

You know why they can't retire F-18A/C's?

Why

Fully I mean

Blue Angels

The blue Angel's are going with supers now

Next season

Aw damn it

Yea when I see them they gonna be flying supers

the A frame is much more agile than the E's

Why not go with f35s 🤣 🤣 🤣

they're going to have to train up hard, because E's are much heavier and have a larger wingspan

> Why not go with f35s 🤣 🤣 🤣
@Identity crisis the plane Probably somewhere around 2050?

Why not have a bunch of f35s do cobras in formation at once

> Why not have a bunch of f35s do cobras in formation at once
@Identity crisis the plane They'd have to be C variants, the wings span will help with that and also, it is a FAAAAAAR more expensive plane as well as also being not an expired plane yet

What is the price of one f35

F-35A 77.8million

That's not as much as the f16v

F16v is 121m

F-35B 101.3million

The b is the most technically complicated one

F-35C 94.4million

C is the Carrier variant

I know

and one that the Navy doesn't want because it doesn't have 2 engines

Why doesn't the navy like single engine

I mean, I get it that you don't have a back up engine in case of a flame out and the project was backed up by supply and bugs, but its still a damn fine plane

F35 gets too much shit

> Why doesn't the navy like single engine
@Identity crisis the plane Security reasons, in the event of a flame out, you still have 1 engine to propel you home

> F35 gets too much shit
@Identity crisis the plane Tell that to the reformers, they literally made fake news about the plane in order to prevent export buyers

Why not just convert the yf23 into a carrier aircraft

> Why not just convert the yf23 into a carrier aircraft
@Identity crisis the plane YF23 is prohibitly expensive to maintain, its exhaust silica tiles are millions as well as the stealth paint

The yf23 was killed by politics, the original plan was that since the f22 won the contest, the yf23 would be naval, but politicians cancelled that

But the YF23 also had a lot of fees to consider and the fact that YF23 didn't do any weapons testing made F-22 more appealing

The yf23 still is an amazing aircraft on par or superior to the yf22

plus consider the fact that F-22 doesn't use Silica tiles to hide its exhaust signature