Chad Irby wrote:

:I'm just wondering why you think it's so outrageous to expect a much
:newer fighter to have much better fuel efficiency...

I don't think that. I also don't have a diseased faith in simulation,
since I used to write them. You can predict lots of things, but you
don't really know what's going to happen until you put a few thousand
hours on an airframe under operational stresses.

We'll see what the real operational range is with the bays full of
weapons and no external tanks. So far, all the numbers I've seen
amount to hand waving.

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"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."
-- Charles Pinckney