What do you mean… you re not aware that the program is having soon 10 years of delay and two times initial budget despict major issues were postponed to further block ?

lol.. Try 5 years behind schedule and nowhere near “double” the budget.

Um, new airframe, new wing, new engine, new avionics, now radar (AESA), internal weapons, etc, etc…

That is no longer an F-16.

Too bad they deleted the proposed pic.

Here are a couple of more pics I found.

General Dynamics called it the Falcon 21 ++, think of the “big wing” F-16U (AKA Falcon 21), then stuck an F119 in it, a new fuselage with internal carriage of AIM-120´s, some stealth signature management (think of a clean Super Hornet) plus (something like) the avionics of the Desert Falcon. Later LM picked that work changed it a bit and called it the “F-16X”.

This is on of the few “Falcon 21” pics I could find form the early 90’s. AAMs are conformal, not internal. Energo over at F-16.net also dug up a PDF (linked below)

The PDF file is on this page.
“Supersonic Aerodynamic Characteristics of an Advanced F-16 Derivative Aircraft Configuration”
http://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15573

@KGB, how would you choose which 2 roles and how would you justify the extra $30-40 Billion in dev combined with the higher cost to produce?

Pilot don’t talk about the program, they give the feedback on what they think the plane will be…
That explains why you can see pilots report that are or completely in favor to the F35 or the opposite.
The one that complain are talking about current capabilities. The one who support are talking about what they think/hope they will do once everything will be ok. Some are optimistic, that is to say despite the current failure they still think everything will be solve. Some are realistic, and just communicate about how the plane is today, and not how it will be if…

Go back and ready recent pilot interviews.

They SPECIFICALLY talk about the F-35 how it is now (ie pre Block 3F and pre opening up of the CLAWS and G restrictions).

Go re-read the 31 pilot interview. Even with the current Block 2B/3i, CLAWS, and /G limits the still prefer the F-35 over anything they have ever flown.

And the reason it oscillates is insufficient control of the dampener. No need to change any of the structure, etc.

Basically, they need to better control the oscillations of the nosewheel.

Since I don’t know if it’s controlled mechanically or programmatically, I couldn’t say what direction they would go for a fix.