June 20, 2003 at 3:19 am
I figure they ar en the same class and will compete on the expor makret, I’ll post my thoughts later.
Lets say you were in a nation that flew the F-16A/B Block 15 MLU (80) and the F-5E/Fs (60) and A-7s (30) and the choices to replace both of those (F-5/A-7) came down to 48 planes either the EF-2000 and F/A-18E for mutli role missions which would you guys take? Lets say the imaginary nation is 1st world and not some poor nation.
EF-2000
ECR-90
1*27mm (not in RAF models)
AIM-120B/C
AIM-132 or IRIS-T
Storm Shadow
ALARM
Penguin
AGM-88
AGM-84
AGM-65
F/A-18E
APG-79 (right now APG-73)
1*20mm vulcan
AIM-120B/C
AIM-9L/M/X
JASSM
JSOW
SLAM-ER
Harpoon
HARM
Maverick