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Note 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

Note 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 ago
It 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.)