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To: Moonman62

No, they’re not. There is no way to add stealth to their airframes and engines, and if you look at the list you’ll note that a lot of the F-16 kills have been via IR missiles. Bolting a new radar on and adding new weapons carriage capability is just like converting merchant ships to be carriers - it never really works out.

Also, two F-15’s have been lost to ground fire in US service.


64 posted on 06/16/2009 10:31:41 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

We don’t need stealth within our borders.


65 posted on 06/17/2009 6:36:42 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Spktyr
There is no way to add stealth to their airframes and engines,

Incorrect.

66 posted on 06/17/2009 10:56:14 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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