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'10,000 sorties', but how many actual flight hours?I was looking at that but was going to hold back on gthe discussion until we get more info ... ... and also a single event is not very reliable to form a statistic.
The info online says the Gripen had done 150,000 hours in March 2011 with 6 airframes lost. That is 25,000 hours per crash.
The 10,000 hours given for the Thunder are for the inservice fleet. I.e. just the 38 or 40 planes in the PAF. That excludes the development hours in China. I would like an estimate of that. Even if we say 2,500 (I don't have a clue), they we have 12,500 hours per crash.
How does that compare with other planes? I need to find out.
Gripen had an early loss at Paris Airshow. How manys hours had it flown by then?
Thanks.
And like you said, what about flight hours during testing, development, the current new weapons integration etc.?