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In message , Chad
Irby
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In article ,
"Paul J. Adam" wrote:
No, because it would be significantly less capable for not much
less
money. The F-16 is a provably superb aircraft but its design is
thirty
years old and it's running out of growth room.

You should remember, though, that the Eurofighter's design is over
twenty years old.

As is the F-22 - is *that* obsolete?

The difference being that the F-22's hopes rest on BAE Systems ability
to
**fix** the F-22's software post code creation, wheras the Eurofighter
was
there's to write from day one.


Sorry - are you talking FCS software here?

I misspelled their's, so sorry.