Finn Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 (edited) A pair of F-16s coming to refuel, note the wear and tear on them, especially the fuel tanks on the one on the left, also the difference in IR missiles between them: Jari Edited February 28, 2021 by Finn BiggTim, Derek B, blackbetty and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldbaldguy Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 Most of our equipment is simply worn out with nothing in the pipeline to replace any of it. KC-46 doesn’t work, F-35 is iffy on its best days, nearly all the peripherals we send our troops to war with are old and outdated and equally worn out. Been like this for years. Lots of wear and tear and dust ground into the paint on these two airplanes, but well earned. BiggTim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry laurent Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 The F-35 is so efficient to be a jack of all trades that the Air Force is going backwards, trying to release a crash program to design a 4.5 generation successor to the F-16 in less than two years! Globally, this should be a non stealthy F-35 or a single engine F-18E/F. What a pity! I thought I they would have learnt from the Mc Namara era that a single platform cannot do anything. Replacing the A-10 and the F-16 with a single plane was already ridiculous... Oldbaldguy and BiggTim 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldbaldguy Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 (edited) Removed by OBG Edited March 1, 2021 by Oldbaldguy More rambling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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