Time for the Pentagon to Reboot the F-16 for Modern Warfare?
If the agile little fighter has any shortcomings, it’s that the American F-16’s radar has fallen out of date. But it's still deadly.
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If the agile little fighter has any shortcomings, it’s that the American F-16’s radar has fallen out of date. But it's still deadly.
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The F-16 was born out of the conundrum experienced by the Air Force in the Vietnam War. Here's What You Need to Remember: If the agile little fighter has any shortcomings, it’s that the American F-16’s radar has fallen out of date, and that the type was never designed to carry a great deal of fuel, limiting its combat radius to just 340 miles on internal stores. The F-16 Fighting Falcon bears an unusual distinctions: it is one of the only top jet fighters in the world to also be cost efficient. Fast and extremely agile, the light fighter does have some shortcomings in range and payload c...
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Book excerpt: In The Tejas Story, a retired air marshal chronicles his experiences of test flying the LCA jets The story that comes to life through his book is that of his team of pilots and of the LCA programme itself, how it was commissioned, the challenges in the development phase and the pressure of realising the dream of domestically developing a fighter plane. Philip Rajkumar January 29, 2021 11:44:45 IST Philip Rajkumar's The Tejas Story: The Light Combat Aircraft...