>>62502050
I will never not be mad that US forces, and allied militaries went for just a few super expensive (mostly) wunderwaffen boondoggles instead of bigger air asset fleets of things like the tiger. f20 especially would have been so fucking good

>>62502050
>Hello faggot control?
>Yes he's out again
>I don't know, you tell me
>Just get down here and wrangle OP before he sucks any more cock

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The F-20 looks kinda underwhelming compared to the JAS-39 desu.
They both use the same powerplant but SAAB was seemingly able to do much more with it.

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>cheaper
>shittier

>>62502666
ok Satan

>>62503064
It was stuck in a plane from the 50's that had target drone engines.

problem was that by the 1980s entire Pentagon spending and procurement had become globalized/standardized.
if the F404 engine was ready for use by the early 1970s then maybe this design could ? have been adopted as a discount F-16 alternative.
Too late to save Northrop

>>62506852
I mean, who else would be in charge of faggots?

>>62502657
It's good to try to maintain a technological advantage through investment but I do think more projects should have been kept in the pipeline.

>>62506868
The Carter admin kept blocking export of the F-5G to Taiwan is what really fucked Northrop, then the Reagan admin did it again. There were other small countries looking to adopt, and the Taiwanese order of like 250 I think it was would justify the production line.

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>>62502050
Based? Based on what?

>>62502050
While cute, ultimately simply too small for its own good.
A 50s design that had no room for the upgrades needed to keep it competitive.

>>62506945
>A 50s design that had no room for the upgrades needed to keep it competitive.
so, in other words, the last gasp of the retard mafia?

>>62506904
>more projects should have been kept in the pipeline
Nobody cares about that any more, isn't how contemporary procurement works
It's all the M2 Bradley MICV F-35 XM7 model all-singing-all-dancing pork projects, that is the only thing being 'produced'
All about wating the greatest amount of money, grifting the gravy train teat over the longest period of time.
Nothing whatsoever to do with appropriate technology, medium term pricurement expediency-efficiency or 'effectiveness bang for buck' weapon.
totally about grifting and wastage of as beaucoup bux as humanly possible

>>62506976
>wating
*wasting

>pricurement
*procurement

>>62506945
>no room
doesn't need.
did the F-16 2000s blocks need room for external strakes-pods of upgrades, likewise with F-15 (F-20 was absolutely not meant as 'comparable' / 'in conformance' / 'similar platform' to F-15/-16 design capability or mission profiles)
It was an excellent low cost limited missions small footprint design that could have been sold to many nations and suited their mission needs, also as a top gun adversary for usaf/usn and as an advanced trainer.
That's not the 21st century pentagon/MIC procurement model, however

>>62503064
You're a moron. The F-20 was pretty the Gripen done a decade earlier. So the Swedes would have to be retards to not have made some improvements when starting with a clean sheet of paper (versus the F-20 being based on the F-5) and 10 years of technological advancement.

>>62506956
Its radar would have had AIM-120 capability so that feature right there is already too much "gold plating" and complication for reformer retards.

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Bro's

>>62502050
It's just a worse F16...

>>62506976
This guy knows.
Regulatory capture is basically complete.

>>62508146
Why would those secondary roles justify adding yet another aircraft to the fleet? Because it looks cool? Poor nations need everything BUT fighters which they only buy as display jewelry.

>>62502657
>t. Mikoyan

After the Vietnam era studies and mostly postwar training changes became a thing, it was pretty obvious that a fighter with deficiencies in pilot visibility wasn't going to be looked at in favor by the USAF.

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>>62502657
If the U.S. adopted F-20 you'd be coping and seething on /k/ about how they didn't adopt the F-16.

>>62506924
>The Carter admin kept blocking export of the F-5G to Taiwan
WHY THE FUCK?

>>62521521
because the admin thought it would be better to do business with communist china and support through a retarded war with vietnam and beeing pro pol pot with fucking thailand