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Nothing what you wrote makes much sense. It's like asking why buy a new MacBook for your company when an IBM/360 will do. F-5 is a 70 year old plane that stopp
by izacus 1y ago
Nothing what you wrote makes much sense. It's like asking why buy a new MacBook for your company when an IBM/360 will do.
F-5 is a 70 year old plane that stopped being manufactured 40 years ago. F-16 was also introduced 45 years ago, predating most of computing industry.
We have learned a few things about designing planes since then which is why F-35 modernizes those designs.
- jleyank 1y agoNote that the f15 and f16 are still in production. It’s going to come down to the missile and support radars not the platform, and how many you can loft vs the threat. For most applications as it were, these birds and their counterparts are fully capable.
- izacus 1y agoIt doesn't really change that the F-35 as an airframe is simply better across the board even if we assume equal avionics, weapons and sensors. There's just so much space in the objectively tiny F-16 for computers and there's just so much you can do with it when it comes to low radar visibility without making it something else. Why buy a thing that's already obsolete? (F-15s aren't really for sale or an option for most nations buying F-35.)