Were they going to buy it? If your answer is “no”, then it’s logical that they won’t get it
I atcually will agree to this
The Canadian CF-18 and the SA Grifen fit perfectly. I dont know why these guys are so set on uk evaluation and training vehicles.
Did UK have plans to buy Hornet?
He was grasping at straws there…
It’s not just that they put their roundel on the F-16, they actually operated them for 11 years
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Can you imagine, yes!
I mean wasn’t the F/A-18 marketed to be exported us and other nations ?
Did the UK buy/lease Hornets or not?
Lease yea kinda but not officially to the RAF but to the Pilots
I did research for Hornet (since I made suggestion for 18A)
I know for fact that Canada and Australia bought them (one of the being first export user of Hornet)
I did not read that UK had plans for it
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If it’s not even official, then why do you consider it a contender?
British pilots flying them a couple of times is not a good arguement to add them to the british tree.
Neither is them being marketed as export planes or them being considered by some nation a good reason to add them to any nation that otherwise does not have anything to do with them.
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It’s better than having a ritual paper variant
because it was an offer from the US navy to ensure FAA pilots could maintain Fixed wing Expertise, because there was more FAA pilots than the RAF could throw in other jets, and instead of having a massive controversy with sacking tens of good pilots before their minimum service time was up the decision was made to unofficially lease the pilots until there was a better UK option (F-35)
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the UK pilots flew them regularly for over a decade…
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So it was just a stop gap for the f35
Again it’s like an unofficial lease in it :P
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Still doesn’t mean the US couldn’t get a EF Typhoon as a squadron vehicle, going by the same guidelines you propose this F-18 for britain.
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Y’all literally going insane trying to justify planes being added to nations because they somehow had contact with them