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From: raymond%europa@uunet.UU.NET (Raymond Man)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: McDonnell-Douglas/Northrop F/A-18
Message-ID: <1990Aug5.042424.28125@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 5 Aug 90 04:24:24 GMT
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From: raymond%europa@uunet.UU.NET (Raymond Man)

In <1990Jul30.015802.8659@cbnews.att.com> Terry Rooker talked about
the Navy's choice of F/A-18 because F/A-18 was both a fighter and an
attack plane.

Well, the choice was YF-16 vs YF-17 and they were so similar in performance
that the only major difference is number of engines. The Navy actually
bought a new plane becasue, while the aerodynamics are almost the same,
by virtual of being 10% larger makes F/A-18 so much different as a system.
Many things do not simply scale.
Just call me `Man'. 
"And why take ye thought for "    --   Matt. 6:28
raymond@jupiter.ame.arizona.edu