Touchscreen in mainline fighters?

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There is a touch screen UFC in the Super Hornet. Not aware of anything other than that, save the F-35 pre-production configuration. Maybe foreign jets I'm not sure
 
Are you a Legacy, or Super guy? If you're Rhino, do you like it? They have the bugs worked out of it?
 
I'm a Charlie guy, so I can't really comment aside from saying that my friends who do fly it like it a lot. The higher lot rhinos have a lot of capabilities that we do not, so I do feel like overall it was an improvement. What bugs specifically were you referring to?
 
The sort that are around when anything new comes to market. When had it when we got the new STArs scopes, and the digital PAR scopes.... Nothing that was really flawed, or wrong, just little tweaks that needed to be made to make it work better. For example... The screen not working well w flight gloves on vs. bare skin ( I know real pilots cut the fingers out, posers don't... :) ) , or whatever.

If you're friends like it, sounds like it's working well.

I'm looking forward to a fully touch capable cockpit. We're close in GA, and generally, the military gets the good stuff first.
 
I'm personally not aware of too many growing pains that the rhino had, which is why I asked. I haven't followed their community very closely. I know of a few things that have cropped up in the last few years as they start to age though
 
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GX said:
I'm looking forward to a fully touch capable cockpit. We're close in GA, and generally, the military gets the good stuff first.
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You'd be surprised. We put the money for aircraft upgrades in areas that we believe make that specific platform more wartime capable. Here's a few examples: We're set to modernize the F-15E with a new radar, a new electronic warfare suite, and a whole new computer system in the next 5-10 years. After all that is said and done, I still won't be able to type in an airspace fix when ATC clears me to "FUCTD" the way that every airliner and SR-22 can. The RC-135 has some amazing electronic warfare capabilities, but the front office still looks like a circa 1965 B-707. Every dollar spent on some nice-to-have feature like RNAV or touch screens is one I can't invest in better ways to kill the bad guys.
 
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At least the E-3's are getting digital fuel gauges...
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Wait... The E-6 and the RC don't have the same cockpit as the KC & E3? They've got glass, granted, not a lot of it, but everything except the engine gauges are glass IIRC. I'll look at a pic I shot later...
 
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Wait... The E-6 and the RC don't have the same cockpit as the KC & E3? They've got glass, granted, not a lot of it, but everything except the engine gauges are glass IIRC. I'll look at a pic I shot later...
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The E-6 is by far the most up to date of all the airframes when it comes to avionics. E-3 and KC-135 both rock ADI/HSI and steam gauges. We've got a off the shelf 737 flight deck. However, the FE panel is still original. The E-3 FE panel has digital fuel gauges, which I've heard have issues. I believe they're delaying installing them in the E-6 until the bugs are worked out.
 
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