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From: steve@pmday_2.Dayton.NCR.COM (Steve Bridges)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Eagle Question
Keywords: Eagle, Phoenix
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Date: 23 Dec 89 06:05:04 GMT
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From: steve@pmday_2.Dayton.NCR.COM (Steve Bridges)

In article <12534@cbnews.ATT.COM> wbates@bucsf.bu.edu (William Bates) writes:
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>From: wbates@bucsf.bu.edu (William Bates)
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>Does anyone know why the Eagle
>Is is merely financial (I have heard that a Phoenix is 2.2 Million a pop..)
>or is it radar, or is it the pylons or .....
>I dunno- any ideas out there- no, any _information_ :-) out there  ??

I'm not sure, but there are 2 reasons I can think of:  The F-15
would need the same radar as the F-14, and I think that the Phoenix 
is too heavy to be carried by the existing hardpoints on the F-15.
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