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A good case could be make that the F-16 started a little too extreme (superb agility but only one gun and two Sidewinders ? ugh)After all the basic concept was for a US Mig-21 counterpart, because of course Vietnam Phantoms vs MiG-21s.It matured with better avionics, Sparrows and AMRAAM, and more and more A2G.In both case it was not a bad aircraft, otherwise 4500 of them would not have been build.I'm a little more skeptical about the F-35, mind you. Time will tell if it will prevail by sheer numbers plus data networking with other platforms.-----------------------Blackburn Firebrand and Martin Mauler are more pertinent exemples. Essentially failed Skyraiders. Very failed ones. Le fana de l'aviation famously said of the firebrand"Errare humanum est" but "perseverare diabolicum"
A good case could be make that the F-16 started a little too extreme (superb agility but only one gun and two Sidewinders ? ugh)
After all the basic concept was for a US Mig-21 counterpart, because of course Vietnam Phantoms vs MiG-21s.
It matured with better avionics, Sparrows and AMRAAM, and more and more A2G.
In both case it was not a bad aircraft, otherwise 4500 of them would not have been build.
I'm a little more skeptical about the F-35, mind you. Time will tell if it will prevail by sheer numbers plus data networking with other platforms.
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Blackburn Firebrand and Martin Mauler are more pertinent exemples. Essentially failed Skyraiders. Very failed ones. Le fana de l'aviation famously said of the firebrand
"Errare humanum est" but "perseverare diabolicum"
