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To: Mariner

For the price of one F35 - you could buy 3 F16s and a refueler...


4 posted on 08/05/2016 7:24:00 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: 2banana

The question is, could an F-35 eat three F-16’s and the refuler?


7 posted on 08/05/2016 7:28:27 PM PDT by Bayard
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"you could buy 3 F16s and a refueler..."

And those F-16s would not be able to penetrate sophisticated A2/AD defenses, returning to the dust from which they came.

14 posted on 08/05/2016 7:35:13 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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“For the price of one F35 - you could buy 3 F16s and a refueler...”

Nope. The flyaway cost of the F-35A (actual cost to manufacture the aircraft) is right around $100 million at this point and dropping. A current model F-16 is around $60 million.

For the extra dollars you get stealth, much better sensors, and game-changing electronics/computers.

F-35 stealth is pretty good, they are cleaning up F-15s and F-16s in exercises.


78 posted on 08/06/2016 5:25:44 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty (Trump '16! Make America Greater Than Ever!)
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