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Similar story for the F/A-18, but even later. The technology exists—Boeing even did a demonstration in the early/mid 2010’s. Navy only finally approved installi
by cgearhart 6y ago
Similar story for the F/A-18, but even later. The technology exists—Boeing even did a demonstration in the early/mid 2010’s. Navy only finally approved installing it in FY2019 budget, so it may not even be fielded yet.
I used to work with a Marine F/A-18 pilot who came to the program office with an axe to grind about this. He requested meetings with PMA-265 (not our office, but same building—this was a very weird thing to do) to _politely_ show them the USAF F-16 AGCAS video and a list of folks he personally knew who died because we didn’t have AGCAS in F/A-18. I just looked him up, and he’s been promoted to Lt.CoL.; now working as the air systems lead for legacy F/A-18 in PMA-265–and it sounds like even legacy hornet is going to get AGCAS. I’m impressed (but perhaps not surprised) that he’s been able to get them to invest AGCAS in a platform that hits end-of-life in 2030. 11/10 would work with SOCK again.