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Why won’t the Super Hornet survivability not decrease??? Sorry, I doubt even you believe that. Especially, as the PAK-FA (FGFA), J-20, and J-31 come online. Plus, that doesn’t even touch on future Air Defense Systems.
In stealth it will decrease survivability. But in a engagment is not going to be decreasing survivability. I guess WVR will never exist in 2020-2100. But it’s still survivable in a engagment. So your predicting the future heh? You’ll never know if it’s possible to lose its survivability since that’s it’s main mission to survive a threat.
A perfectly shaped External Fuel Tank adds considerable drag. So, how does a CFT or Stealthy Weapons Pod reduce drag??? Your going to have a provide a good source on that one. Like I said earlier the USN just begun test on the CFT’s. So, I don’t believe any published data has been released yet???
Well i think you should go back and read more about the Block III upgrade. Prove it has + drag when these components are put into the Rhino.
As it stands right now we don’t even know if the USN will fund the CFT’s, Stealthy Weapon Pods, and Upgraded F414-EPE’s. My guess is the USN may purchase a number of CFT’s but not the Stealthy Weapon Pods or EPE’s. (my opinion)
Like my point earlier, the US Navy doesn’t care about its poor performance in acceleration and drag. They just want more Range and combat radius to match the F-14’s long range capability. They at least have to upgrade to improve its acceleration and focus on the Rhinos drag. They all care about range. But IMHO, Navy pilots just want their plane to have no more issues on poor acceleration and no issues in drag. They want the Rhino to be a good performer in acceleration and don’t want tons of drag on the Bug.
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