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To: TokarevM57; A strike
I'm an old Army guy who knows very little about the Air Force and even less about the Navy. IIRC there are,or once were,US fighter jets manufactured in both an Air Force and a Navy version...but I could very well be mistaken.
36 posted on 06/07/2022 3:09:14 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: Gay State Conservative

...you are indeed correct...! one example that I am familiar with is the Vought A-7 aircraft...the principal Air Force version was the A-7D and the principal Navy versions were the A-7A, A-7B and later, the A-7E....Navy aircraft have heavier landing gear so as to be able to take “controlled crashes” which are really what arrested landings on aircraft carriers are...also, avionics and the internal 20 MM cannon differ among the types....interestingly, the Navy named the A-7 as the “Corsair II” in honor of its WWII namesake; the Air Force never adopted that name for its A-7 fleet....after all, it WAS a Navy name.....!!!


37 posted on 06/07/2022 3:19:54 PM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: Gay State Conservative

F-111 was supposed to, but didn’t work out that well.

F-4’s were used by the Air Force and Navy.


43 posted on 06/07/2022 3:38:45 PM PDT by Hulka
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