Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Kunyange zvazvo YF-16 akahwina LWF makwikwi, Navy akanga asina chokwadi kuti ndege ane injini imwe uye yakamanikana kumhara giya aigona nyore kana zvoupfumi kuchinjwa vatakuri basa, uye akaramba kushandisa F-16 rinobva. On 2 May 1975, Navy yakazivisa ayo kusarudzwa YF-17. Sezvo LWF haana kugoverana magadzirirwo zvinodiwa VFAX, Navy akakumbira McDonnell Douglas uye Northrop kukudziridza ndege itsva kubva magadzirirwo uye nheyo YF-17. On 1 March 1977, Secretary of the Navy W. Graham Claytor akazivisa kuti F-18 yaizonzi "Hornet". Northrop akanga partnered pamwe McDonnell Douglas somunhu yechipiri contractor musi NACF kuti capitalize pamusoro okupedzisira ruzivo mukuvaka vatakuri ndege, kusanganisira zvikuru kushandiswa F-4 Phantom II. Pamusoro peF-18, makambani maviri aya akabvumirana kugovera zvakaenzana kugadzirwa kwezvinhu, McDonnell Douglas achiita gungano rekupedzisira. McDonnell Douglas aizovaka mapapiro, zvinodzikamisa, uye fuselage yokumberi; nepo Northrop yaizovaka fuselage yepakati neyekumashure uye zvinodzikamisa zvakatwasuka. McDonnell Douglas aiva chikuru Muvaki nokuda wengarava shanduro, uye Northrop aizova chikuru Muvaki nokuda F-18L panyika-kwakavakirwa shanduro iyo Northrop vaitarisira kutengesa pamusoro ekisipoti pamusika. The F-18, pakutanga sevatsigiri McDonnell Douglas Model 267, akanga zvikuru zvakachinjwa kubva YF-17. Kuti ndege dzifambe dziri pazvikepe zvinotakura zvinhu, nhengo dzayo dzomukati dzakasimbiswa, mapapiro acho akachinjwa, zvigadziko zvemapapiro acho zvakawedzerwa, uye nzvimbo yokumhara yakawedzerwa. Kuti asangane nechinangwa cheNavy uye zvinodikanwa, McDonnell akawedzera mafuta emagetsi ne4,460 mapaundi (2,020 kg), nekuwedzera musana wemusana uye kuwedzera 96-gallon fuel tank kumapapiro ose. "Snag" yakawedzerwa kumucheto unotungamira wepapiro uye vanogadzikana kudzivirira aeroelastic flutter yakawanikwa muF-15 stabilizer. Mapapiro uye stabilizers akanga akakurisa, kumashure fuselage yakawedzera ne 4 inches (102 mm), uye injini dzakakombama kunze mberi. Iyi chinjo yakawedzera 10 000 lb (4,540 kg) kuuremu hwoga hwoga, kuchikuunza ku...  Mubvunzo: Chii chakanga chakarongwa kuvakwa pachishandiswa manyoro eYF-17?
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