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Fred J. McCall wrote:

Scott Ferrin wrote:

:I think he's referring to the comment *way* back up the thread that
:suggested the F-35C wouldn't have the range of a Super Hornet and that
:it's range would have to be cut by 33% to be as low as the Hornet's.

I'm sure he is, but that's simply wrong.

No, that's basically what they've been using at the Navy.

First normalize the numbers.
Equal percentage of load, fuel, same flight profiles, etc.

The Navy uses a standard mission profile. It's a "high-low-high" attack
mission with a standard armament load (two 1000 pound bombs) that can
recover on the same ship it launches from (the FA-18E/F supposedly can't
recover from an abort with a max load, and has to dump some weapons or
fuel to manage a landing). The standard mission profile is what I've
been going by.

If you go with nonstandard profiles, the FA-18 E/F could have a higher
range (as much as 500 miles, with extreme fuel loads and no chance of
recovery in a short abort), but so would the F-35 (more internal fuel).

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