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The Navy bought a grand total of 22 F-16Ns (and 4 TF-16Ns). Assuming similar production numbers for the F-20, a couple dozen extra engines is hardly going to move the cost curve considering the existing production of more than 4,000 F404s for F/A-18s and other aircraft.And that's not considering the cost to turn the F-20 from basically an experimental aircraft into a production type, and then building only a double handful of them (Maybe the USAF could have gotten roped in as well for DACT, but no way they were going to take the F-20 for the ADF role).
The Navy bought a grand total of 22 F-16Ns (and 4 TF-16Ns). Assuming similar production numbers for the F-20, a couple dozen extra engines is hardly going to move the cost curve considering the existing production of more than 4,000 F404s for F/A-18s and other aircraft.
And that's not considering the cost to turn the F-20 from basically an experimental aircraft into a production type, and then building only a double handful of them (Maybe the USAF could have gotten roped in as well for DACT, but no way they were going to take the F-20 for the ADF role).
