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Old 15th Jun 2015, 10:20
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ORAC
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MSOCS, I'll take your money and double up on a 'true' IOC this year..
Seeing as one reason the USMC is short of airframes is that the IOC is being performed with the handful of aircraft with obsolete processors/hardware running software build 2B - with all subsequent squadrons being equipped with the upgraded system running build 3i, you could question the relevance of the IOC and bet anyway.

Let alone the sudden angst and desire to switch to an open architecture to reduce the time to introduce a new weapon below 15 years.......
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