It’s a danish F16, the page just talks about them needing to be modified to work in Nordic cold environments as they have problems getting the engines to start. A problem we didn’t have when we bought the J35F from Sweden since it was made to deal with the low temps.
That’s also bad scans of old newspapers and poor camera quality. Here’s a older image of the Dutch and Danish doing joint training exercises. A lot better quality then an old magazine.
As of the last time I’ve seen it talked about by more trusted sources was for the Canadian military. The heavy rumour is that the mixed fleet is all but locked in, but the grenral this is that it can be used in the talks when the NA trade deal expires here this year, hence why the overdo review is still open/
Or at least it was anything I heard anything really about it. Other news (that could easily lead to the SAAB deal being taken) has taken about everything else over the last few weeks, the Defence Industrial Strategy and its fallout (albeit good fallout)
Not the fastest unless it’s at very high altitude and past mach 1.3, which honestly if you go that high to reach those speeds you’re asking to get swatted by the hundreds of telephone poles, not that everyone even reaches those speeds very often in ARB unless they’re flying the top dogs sticking to high altitude and you can only really stay up there if you got the missile count to compete (or performance to abuse notch and boresight launches like Rafale thanks to TVC fox 3s), which the F-16s do not. Your comparison to the Gripen E falls apart when you realize the 7 BVR missiles the Gripen E gets are coupled with 2 IR missiles, which in the F-16s you take either or, and the average player usually carries 4 amraams and 2 9Ms, or you take full amraams and no IRs, AESA is present even on 13.0 platforms like the Kfir C.10, the F-2 is a prime example of an all round fighter with an AESA and only really lacks HMD (MAWS not really necessary), the JF-17 has MAWS at 13.3. You could argue that sure they’re features that aren’t really combined into a single jet at those lower BRs, but it will never warrant a BR higher than 14.0 when said platform is an F-16, it’s just not competitive beyond 13.7 and that is a fact. So it’s either triple rack amraams or it’s DOA.
shame they got rid of napalm before they made GPS kits and then wing kits for those GPS kits, would make it way easier to get rid of bombing bases with less weight
Pathetic? Not really I’m pointing out a fact that they had problems in our weather, and as Quartas stated it may have only been early models.
You didn’t really provide a counter outside of just saying Alaska but that still doesn’t explain. Perhaps the US cut costs on export models to be more cheap, who knows, at least I provided actual evidence for my statement.
Also aren’t you the guy who stated the SLAMRAAM had no help from KONGSBERG, so why should I take you seriously when you’ve proven to not give credible sources? Well outside of Wiki links lmao
The US only got rid of napalm because it became less effective of a way to clear jungle/forest/brush than other methods, which was it’s actual purpose.