The F-16 seems to be one of the best airplanes ever made.Small, cheap and deadly.Why not make the F-16XL?Maybe also improve it to reduce the radar cross section, by removing the single vertical stabilizer, and then adding two, one on each side of the engine on an angle.Also add that bulge on the air intake that is seen on the F-35
>>65374859>Shouldn't they give the F-16XL another chance?No. For the simple reason that it's ugly.
>>65374862Ur ugly, uggo
I always wonder that myself. It cant be that hard to rebuild a jet resized proportionally larger to a new turbine. Like, why keep building the f1sex out of old f110s when the f135 is in production?Its gotta slash the r&d down to almost nothing
>>65374911Jets are sensitive and optimized beasts, a minor shift of the center of mass or even a fuel line readjustment would just become a butterfly effect of revisions to the point of it being cheaper to just design a newer plane
>>65374859I could make another thread but this one is similar enough; why didn't Boeing do the same for the X-32? Maybe as revenge for losing the JSF program.This is also assuming that there's an air force or navy crazy enough to buy this happy guy
>>65374862FPBP/thread
>>65374859We already have it one.It is name TEJAS
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>>65375115Superpower by 2030, Saar.
They should just give the XL treatment to the F-35 and put it up as an A-10 replacement>fast>lots of hardpoints for SDBs or APKWS>big wings = shitloads of fuel>lots of fuel means long loiter times
>>65375218the F-35 *is* the A-10 replacement for peer war CAS purposesfor Toyota-plinking, the F-16 as-is would be sufficientor perhaps large drones
>>65375221Sorry, I meant Boomer Approved(tm) replacement.All though it won’t truly get approval until it Carrie’s a big useless gun. So maybe a central hardpoint for a 30mm pod?
>>65375226>Boomer Approved(tm)>it won’t truly get approval until it Carrie’s a big useless gun
>>65374859It's like having a naval F-16; so many comprises and changes that you might as well have a new jet.F-15 is effectively a F-16XL
>>65374862Your are unable to see beauty as It is your soul that is ugly.
