I'm fully prepared to admit that the single-seat aircraft can perform as well as the two-seat aircraft in Iraq- or Afghan-style scenarios where threat avoidance is a simple matter of staying above the MANPAD envelope. The point is how well do the 2 aircraft perform under "full war" conditions? Since there hasn't been a proper "full war" scenario since either variant of the Super Hornet entered service we can't know - unless anyone has observed them on RED FLAG? I would still rather go up against the massed hordes with someone thinking about the target whilst I'm concentrating on missile-dodging
