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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
Yes, they certainly are, which is why it's important to keep those highly trained and expensive assets in the air.
Note the "etc"? I'm not talking about just one type of jet aircraft, I'm talking about them all.
If it takes say 500 man hours to build an F-18, 1,000 man hours for an F-22, and 300 man hours for an F-16, I know which one's more likely to see production ramped up in the latter half of 1997. You've got to keep pilots in the air even if it means a downgrade in overall aircraft performance. Chances are the enemy won't have a lot of their more advanced aircraft left either so the reduced performance shouldn't be a major problem.
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Yes they are going to ramp up F-16 production aren't they? And don't forget there is a whole wing or highly trained pilots waiting in Britain for those F-16's
