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Originally Posted by Injecteer
I think, the answer is pretty simple: if a country has had a jet in a service for years, then it will replace the AC with a similar one, from the same manufacturer.
Otherwise the country would have to change the whole maintenance infrastrusture, re-educate pilots and ground stuff etc., and I assume it causes more headache, if you even managed to save a couple-o-millions per plane  |
Well for us, the JSF is a really different plane to anything we've operated since maybe the Mirage-III. It's single engined, single seat only, short ranged, smaller payload and stealth. The last one is what got it bought by us.