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  1. MirageBlue

    F-16 Viper

    Shooting down a drone that may or may not be maneuvering hard versus taking down a fighter that will likely be maneuvering hard to avoid being shot down is quite different, that too at very long distances. Secondly, the AIM-120D still uses just 1 motor, and is NOT a dual pulse missile. So...
  2. MirageBlue

    F-16 Viper

    Not true at all. The T/W ratio of the F-16 has never been an issue, even with sizeable payloads.
  3. MirageBlue

    F-16 Viper

    Gripen E may have a slightly lower RCS than F-21, but the overall RCS difference will be negligible especially when they're carrying stores externally. F-16s are now also appearing in the 5th gen Have Glass grey paint that basically uses RAM coatings to reduce the RCS of the fighter it is...
  4. MirageBlue

    F-16 Viper

    BARS is obsolete?! LOL!! There are thousands of fighters flying with mechanically scanned array radars developed in the late 1990s and early 2000s and you call a radar that was fully developed with all modes in the mid to late 2000s as obsolete?! It isn't state of the art, but calling it...
  5. MirageBlue

    F-16 Viper

    There are 12 Su-30MKIs that are going to be contracted for since the Acceptance of Necessity was granted by the MoD. They will be the last Sukhois delivered to the IAF before the line closes. Then there's 21 MiG-29UPGs that will most likely be contracted this year. They will form one more...
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