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Old 14th Dec 2017, 12:14
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melmothtw
 
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CF-105? Nice try ;-) The technology of the day required that most of those fighters you list had two engines, regardless of where they were operated.

The Swedes on the other hand have never seriously contemplated a twin-engine fighter (while operating a twin-jet trainer for ever). But you'll notice that their fighter engines, or the main bits of their fighter engines (JT8D-based RM8, F404-based RM12), have always been well wrung out by someone else before they get into RSwAF service.
I'd suggest that there will likely be far more diagnostic and analytical information available for the F135 (and probably actual flying hours) by the time that Canada comes to the F-35.
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