Is it better than average F-16C Block 50/52?

>>32065360

That paint scheme is damn sexy, I'll give the nips that.

>>32065360
Larger wings, more drag and less manoeuvrability at high speed.

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>>32065424
I prefer greek scheme.

Semi-related:

What's the point of the F-16V? Who's going to be buying more Vipers at this point now that the F-35's are coming out? Also, is the V equipped with the F110-GE-132 like the UAE's Block 60's? I don't understand why more Vipers don't have the higher-thrust engine. Or why they don't retrofit the F135 into the Vipers. 45,000lbf on a ~20,000lb F-16 would be pure sex.

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>>32065534

>CFT's

Absolutely disgusting.

I also have a soft spot for some of the Alaskan-based Vipers' schemes.

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>>32065647

>>32065647
Awesome, it really looks like Russian scheme.

>>32065614
People who aren't allowed to get F-35s, like India.

>I don't understand why more Vipers don't have the higher-thrust engine.
$$$

>Or why they don't retrofit the F135 into the Vipers
Because an F-16 would be out of fuel by the time it reaches the end of the runway. The F-16 also probably doesn't have a big enough intake.

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I'm partial to Poland's tiger stripe camo myself.

>>32065360
Yea, it's got an AESA.

However, it is F-22 expensive and nowhere near as capable.

>>32065360
It was no match for the tsunami.

>>32066035
>Those CFTs

threw up in my mouth a little

>>32065534

haha, F-16 carrying a GBU-24.

the jet would bingo out right after it goes wheels up in a configuration like that.

>>32066250
I don't understand how that's possible. Did they gold plate the inside?

>>32067060

turns out radome size is still important even with AESAs, and the F-16 is a small fighter.

>>32067094
I just don't understand why they just didn't build something closer to the f22 for the same price.

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>>32065360
It is a F-16 with a larger payload and more of a focus on anti-ship.

>>32067273
Much of the price of the F-2 comes from developing Japan's industry.

It is why this is a thing.

>>32067273
Cause the tech and knowledge to make an F-22 like aircraft was an extremely closely guarded secret when the F-2 came into arrive

Now 16ish years later we want all our close allies to have these bitchin toys, which is why we're selling them F-35s and helping them with their own domestic 5th gen like >>32067421 has pointed out

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>>32067514

>came into arrive

I need to stop drinking

>>32067060
Japan has basically no economies of scale

>>32067514
I'm really curious what they'll end up turning the ATD-X into, since they'll have F-35s

>>32067273

Economy of scale.

Japan only built 94 of the fucking things, which means development costs had to be distributed among a very small number of airframes.

Then there's the fact that they boneheadedly demand that a proportion of the parts must be domestically produced, and Japan simply did not have established suppliers and subcontractors that had the tooling and expertise to make fighter jet parts, so a lot of those parts had to have tooling made for very small runs, which means very expensive parts.

Japan does this all the fucking time, the Howa 89 costs the Japanese government like $2000 per rifle, for something that provides basically no advantages over your bog standard M16. Why? Because domestic requirement; the armory that make the Type 89 only make enough for the JSDF, there's no civilian demand for the Howa so they load the entire cost of the factory onto the ones the government buys.

>>32067533
So much high tech in one picture. Shit makes my dick hard.

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>>32067567
Probably a F-35+ aircraft since the platform will be extremely mature by the time the ATD-X based 5th gens come online

>tfw we'll see Nip domestic 5th gens fly alongside American 5th/6th gens in our lifetime

The west grows larger

>>32065360
If I remember the primary goal was to be able to lug 4 ASM's to shoot at ships hence the larger composite wing.

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>>32066973
Plz no bully...

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>>32067724
That was their main goal, but the Super Hornet would have been a better choice.

>>32067567
Nothing, as the program is going to get more cuts than the PAK-FA

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>>32067748
nice HDR, nerd

>>32067748
CFTs always make a plane look like that girl that was really hot and fit in high school, but then you go to your reunion and now she has six kids and a mobility scooter.

>>32071448
What's funny about that is that in practice it's more like the guy who went from being 80-pounds skinny and unable to run a mile to 150 and doing 5-milers for fun.

>>32067533
What are those dots on the side?

>>32071383
[dies in BVR]

>>32071850
>CF-02
Well, going by the airframe number, that's C prototype 2, so it has measured reference point markers placed on it so a computer can analyze it from camera footage.

>>32065614
>What's the point of the F-16V? Who's going to be buying more Vipers at this point now that the F-35's are coming out?
You know the expression? It is better with one bird in the hand than 10 burning up on a US tarmac before it is delivered to your country (if ever).

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>>32071448
Some make it work.

>>32067600
>they boneheadedly demand that a proportion of the parts must be domestically produced
Oh look, yet another one who has not heard of offset agreements.

>>32065647
>>32065669
That's hot as fuck.

>>32067533
And so is this.

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Don't mind me, just passing through.

>>32072353
>Reminder that the F-35 has a far superior accident record than the F-16 at the same production/operational stage

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>>32072498
Sexy as fuck

>>32072685
>newer planes have better testing
WEW LAD!

>>32072810
You mean newer planes are better designed.

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>>32072853
I bet he even thinks Pierre Sprey is an aircraft designer!

>>32071889
Allright, thanks.

>>32065360
>Internal fuel: 7,000 pounds
Anything is better than F-16.

>>32065465
>less manoeuvrability at high speed.

Fighters dont 'maneuver' at high speed. You probably dont even know what happens to a plane's airspeed while it's turning.

>>32072378

I know about offset agreements, but the dumb one about that is that Japan chose the dumb parts to make and wanted a very large portion (60%).

They spent a ton of money getting the composite wing surface right, then never used the technology again because they stopped building planes that justify that kind of expense.

>>32072810
>I don't know how to read because I am a fucking moron, the post

>>32066973

Fuck you, man. Those are pure sex.