Multi-Role fighter (MR-X) F-16 Replacement ("4.5 Generation Fighter")

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I can see the clean sheet requirement being dropped because of cost savings and development durations, with bids being modified off the shelf fighters. Lockheed will likely just try to persuade the USAF to buy more F-35s instead, with promises of reduced sustainment costs; maybe offering a pimped out F-16V Block 72 out of desperation.

Prescient words from awhile back.