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Not sure late F-16C agility is something to write home about, though.

This up-engined 1970's design has been surpassed by Typhoon and may be unfit to dodge many of today's AAMs.
Modern anti-g-suits allows for up to 11 g turns (according to published info), something the F-16 was never meant to do (same).

Maybe there's a critical agility threshold in modern combat aircraft:
Either you exceed it and benefit from agility or you're not agile enough. This applies especially to missile dodging (supported by warning sensors which can detect low signature rockets in time and reliably).

Mar 14, 2015, 1:25:09 AM

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