Better to sell them A-12 if we’re talking pie in the sky. Honestly, though, the UK would have been the only partners I’d wanted at the time for F-22A. F-117A was already past it’s pinnacle development-wise by ’95. We already knew JSF was the next big thing.

63% for MKI is excellent. They’ve actually committed to MKI and India should be very proud of the turnaround. I fear they might over commit to the task to get it another level of improvement.

Boeing proved they can quickly prototype fighters. Lockmart has no plans to expand F-16 sales. And there were plenty of ways to improve on the F-16 to make it relevant into the future. Boeing probably could have piggybacked off Saab for a Viggen II which would have been just a Gripen upscaled with an F100. Plenty of potential for their T-X design, too. The market has never favored heavies.

F100 or F110 is the real guessing game. Surely they want F110-132 or F100-229 at F100-100 prices. General Electric is probably licking it’s chops over the prospect of 200 engines.

Su-47 suffered wing flapping in the trans-sonic range. Obviously not going to outrun anything supersonic capable.

That’s great information, cabbage!

Images like this used to incite major arguments before the internet

In hindsight they were simply to entertain.

F404-102 right? F/A-18 uses F404-400.