"john smith" wrote in message
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I have been downloading Col. John Boyd's works to study and stumbled
upon this...

http://www.pogo.org/p/defense/da-050301-fa22.html

I haven't read it yet, but plan to later tonight.

Remember that if Riccione and Boyd had their way, the F-15 wouldn't have
been built, and the F-16 would have had even more limited radar, bomb
aiming, and avionics suites. Those guys wanted the F-16 to be essentially
an F-86 with a far better power to weight ratio.

Now, they are proposing further upgrades to the fighter (the F-15) they
railed against and the fighter they wanted to be a minimalist dogfighter.

KB