And it's arguable that the original vision for the LWF was mistaken. Its goal was to be able to counter the Warsaw Pact airforces, airframe for airframe in a qu

And it's arguable that the original vision for the LWF was mistaken. Its goal was to be able to counter the Warsaw Pact airforces, airframe for airframe in a quantitative battle. But the Soviets were in the process of introducing the Fulcrum that would have outclassed such a simple fighter. A radar-less aircraft would have relied upon GCI, which the Soviets would have been quite successful in jamming/spoofing.