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To: Spktyr

Hopefully Skunkworks or similar black budget military capabilities are continuously working on technological developments and are just not showing their hand.
That said, my faith in our country is not a stock to purchase currently.
I’m aware the F-16 has had numerous upgrades from inception.


57 posted on 02/22/2022 8:07:09 AM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

I highly doubt that there would be anything game changing available from those facilities in time. Word has it that most of those capabilities were massively defunded around 2008-2010 (gee, I wonder why) and that the well is basically dry.

A lot of that kind of stuff got canned when the Australians discovered that you actually *can* see a stealth craft entering your territory on radar. Not well enough to get a missile lock, but well enough to vector fighters or UAVs to go say hi.

The F-16’s had a ton of upgrades and there’s been yet another round of them... which we didn’t buy.


62 posted on 02/22/2022 10:51:41 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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