Interesting. The Scorpion appears to be designed to fill the role that the F5 largely filled in practice. Well, up here in Canada, at least. The F5 may not have

Interesting. The Scorpion appears to be designed to fill the role that the F5 largely filled in practice. Well, up here in Canada, at least. The F5 may not have been designed for the role, but it filled it much better than the 104 or the Voodoo could have, and those were the alternatives before we got the F18. Unfortunately, it doesn't have the advantage of being quite as pretty as the F5 (which, like the Spitfire, was as much a Platonic projection of what a fighter of the era should look like as it was a real aircraft). It looks like what it is, and, politics aside, it's not going to tickle any fancies. Customers, if any, will be those who realise that this aircraft is what they need, not what they dream of. As for the politics of procurement, Textron isn't exactly a virgin here (although Bell has been helicopters and Cessna hasn't done much since the T37/A37). And the F35 (well, the whole JSF debacle, going back to before the F35 was selected) has left some rather bad tastes in some rather important mouths.