Originally Posted by
sandiego89
Interesting. Wonder if they did come up with some conformal tanks?
Seems a few users like Israel could use the big wing C version.
The other article I read on that said that it included software mods, no idea as to the details.
@gums: are you referring to the Hornet as a Bug?
From the figures the C is a worse option than the A.
Unless you want to operate off of aircraft carriers.
I will concur with your point as regards commonality. There's a history to this.
I recall the much ballyhooed 'commonality' between the Blackhawk(A) and Seahawk (B) the practical number was about 'one third' though the official number was a bit higher than that. (And if I understand the lore correctly, the IDGB for the L Blackhawk was the child of the B Seahawk main transmission, but I may be crossing the wires of memory here).
On the other hand, Seahawk/Knighthawk (CH-60S which is now MH-60S) was built off of a then-current production Blackhawk (L) (with a few mods, of course, but my memory wires still have a few frayed ends on that one)