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Old 21st Nov 2008, 18:32
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Do you mean the Seaspray 7000E radar which was first placed on the open market in 2004 and so will be over 10 years old when the "future" Lynx comes into service....? And do you also mean the MX 15 which has been flying in operational aircraft for the past 5 years and so will also be over 10 years old when the "future" Lynx enters service.... (Please don't buy the MX 15...... please, please IPT....buy the MX 20 HD....its much much better)

The only thing "future" about the Wildcat is the airframe..... the avionics are all just collected from various lock up garages and shoved into the airframe without any thought of what the aircrew will do with all these old bits of kit. Maybe we should delete the word "future" and insert the word "yesterdays"..... there you have it..... Yesterdays Lynx.



That said, it will be an improvement on the current aircraft....although not a significant improvement....it could have been much better and it could have gone much further...... there is little ground breaking technology in this aircraft. The biggest problem the Wildcat will face is its introduction into service. Unless a home is found for this aircraft soon and unless the infrastructure to welcome it into the Service is developed soon, then we may well end up with hangars full of them but no one trained to fly or maintain them.
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