Darth_Yuthura

Oh, I definately agree with you on that one, buddy. However, in need be, we would be way ahead of any adversary. If you own the sky, you can own the ground, in a sense.

I personally think that the F-16 is the work-horse of the US Air Force. It has so many capabilities it isn't even funny. Outstanding fighter/attack aircraft.

I really do wonder if if is possible to upgrade fighters like the F-15 and F-16? Something like thrust vectoring like the F-22 has. That would give those fighters the upperhand in a fight. Or instead of making a whole bunch of 5th generation fighters we could just make more 4th generation and still have the upperhand. Ya, that means more maintanence but....

Or someone could make a new fighter combining the characteristics of other fighters. For example the F-18's maintainablilty, reliablility. Thrust vectoring. Modern avionics. I guess that would be pricey though.

I love aviation, if you can't already tell.