When the F16 entered service in 1978 it was the first fighter to be deliberatly built to sustain 9g turns and is one of the few jets with a thrust to weight ratio greater than 1 giving it excellent acceleration.
This aircraft is still being built (the Indian airforce are seriously considering it to replace their MiG-21s) and many varients in service with at least 24 countries.
Why hasn’t anything been built that performs better than this? Is it because in designing this General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin have designed an aircraft that will never be bettered?
In Russia the new MiG-35 is actually the MiG-29 but with thrust vectoring engines (also called MiG-29MRCA), can this aircraft be improved or have MiG reached the design apex?
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September 17, 2007 at 2:55 pm