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Old 28th Mar 2012, 04:12
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GreenKnight121
 
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Not_a_boffin...

Fitting the APG-65 to GR7/9s would require fabrication of at least a new front fuselage... every one of the USMC conversions got a complete new fuselage!

Not very feasible... which is why there was no interest on the part of India.

Now the USMC has about 1/3 of its AV-8B fleet without the APG-65... so they could fairly well replace those with GR7/9s.

However, apparently what they are planning is to transition some F/A-18A/C squadrons to the GR7/9s.

The remaining airframes would be disassembled for components, etc.


Here is what was done in the upgrade:

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