I said the IAF has flown against the F16 – US, Singapore and maybe Israeli. The F16IN is a proposed evolution not yet in existence so obviously it hasn’t been flown against.
All the evidence points to Typhoon being selected in some measure for it’s WVR performance – see Ashley Tellis’s analysis and the IAF’s pointing out that the reason the the down select was partially based on this – don’t remember the exact words but it’s available on Livefist maybe?
Again you are missing the point. An F 16 with the performance (aerodynamic) of Block 50/52 was never on offer for the IAF, it got a strike/BVR oriented F 16 which stood no chance against any of the MRCA contenders in WVR.
Also please don’t swallow what all Ashley J Tellis writes, His first report was full of factual errors with respect to several aircraft, the second report got a good reply from some one called Mihir Shah, and his response to that was far from convincing. Mr.Tellis sounds more or less like a an American apparently pissed of because the Super Hornet was not selected.
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