So there is going to be an F-16G.https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-eyes-new-build-f-16s-to-boost-fighter-force/>The Air Force will consider acquiring new F-16 Fighting Falcon jets to help fill capacity shortfalls in its aging fighter fleet, multiple people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.>Buying new F-16s—which would be the U.S.’s first in more than 20 years—is viewed as one way to quickly build back lost fighter capacity, as Lockheed Martin continues to operate a hot production line for the aircraft. Buying F-16s from Lockheed, which also produces the F-35 Lightning II, would have parallels to the decision to acquire F-15EX Eagle IIs from Boeing, which likewise came after a yearslong gap in USAF purchases.
fighter jets are TIGHT
>>65516288Getting ready for National Guards units having to defend Bucharest from drone swarms?
I can't imagine a more damming endightment of the F-35 than the USAF buying more of the plane it was mainly meant to replace. At this point I'm thinking the USAF will halt procurement when the F-47 becomes available.
>>65516328ESL?
>>65516328>endightmentShut the fuck up, retard.
>>65516337Lockheed Martin shills will stay malding. But they cannot deny this is the army equivalant of buying an old corrola because your Tesla spends more time in the shop than it does on the road.
>he doesn't know
>>65516288>f-35 has a readiness rate of just 25% compared to the 62-69% of the F-16>readiness rating of the f-35 for the navy and marines are sub 20%Fucking yikes
>>65516328>endightmentbrown
>>65516408You are hoping anons won't look up the actual rates.
>>65516433yeah, f35 readiness rate is actually 6.9% while su57s are 100% ready
>>65516433Considering what I've read on what the military considers in a state of readiness, it's a meh point. Meanwhile, seeing the state of Russian gear makes me think they probably got less than 1% readiness rate if using us military definition
>>65516347It's COROLLA, you illiterate fuck.
>>65516288https://aviationweek.com/defense/aircraft-propulsion/lockheed-pitches-advanced-f-16g-us-air-forceBasically the USAF wants more fighters on top of what is already being made and the F-16 has a hot production from UAE orders.
>>65516507Pointless add hominum to distract from the issue at hand. The fact is YOU WILL SEE the air force start talking about F-35 force reductions the nanosecond they take delivery of the first production F-47.
>>65516637The issue at hand being the USAF wants as many airframes as possible.
>>65516655You're missing the point anon. Why does the Air Force need to buy aircraft based on a 50 year old design when it's supposed replacement has been "combat capable" for a decade?
>>65516668Because Lockheed can only produce so many F-35 a year (191 aircraft in 2025) and there is a hot production line for F-16 that can add to that total.This isn't rocket science.
>>65516328>endightment
>>65516328>it’s the seething CAS boomer againYou’re a retard lol, no, it’s not. F35 is way better than an F16.
>>65516347>y-you’re a shill if you don’t share my retarded opinions!No lol, and the only one pissed here is you.
>>65516408Except that isn’t true at all lol.
>>65516637No, no we won’t.
>>65516637>add hominumHe's got to be doing this on purpose
>>65516433Those stats are from the GAO, so I'm not sure why you're being disingenuous
>>65516766I’m not sure why you keep trying to be obtuse about the different states of readiness in the US airforce and how they are classed.I’m sorry the F35 touched you when you were a kid and stole your first GF, get over it.
>I am forgotten
>>65516288>USAF gets comically BTFO by naval aviation in literally every war>No new Navy fast mover design since 1968>Iran savagely buttfucks USAF just the way the air force queers like it, billions of dollars of lost airframes>Navy carries the majority of stand in strikes and overall sortie generation with aircraft objectively shittier than ACC, and sustains zero (0) losses>Air Force literally runs procurement for all branches so cuts the F/A-XX for the 10th new USAF design to be acquired since the last time USN was allowed to aquire their own design fast mover (in 1968...)Fucking disband the queer cum guzzling support group known as the air farce at this point.
>>65516408
>>65516766>Those stats are from the GAOnot beating the accusation
>>65516288God, she's let herself go
>>65516288AF already got the F-16 Pobit upgrades they wanted. Should put their funding instead into F-47, 6 gen mult-role (twin engine F-35 successor) , CCA's to cover shortfalls, and keep existing F-35 orders.
>>65516288so the air force saw what LM offered to india back then as block 70(which became f21 for...some reason)and said nah dont do this dont bring an 80s design into the 21th century but instead they gonna buy new ones with minor upgrades?
>>65516288So what would be the differences between this and a current Viper (Block 70/72)?
>>65516981The F-47 won't be ready for production for years and that isn't how budgets work at all.
>>65516927what, you americans no work with the GAO? of why then called GAOs?
>>65517630>thirdie has no comprehension of his mistake
>>65517130DSI inlets amd better stealth overall.Open avionics architecture with kubernetes like F22-F35s.Engines will stay the same, lotta replacement parts, economies of scale.
