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Oscar said:
The Skyflash doors were found to interfere with flight characteristics along with pudding needless stress on the air-frame.

Every weapons has a flight profile after release as well which is also dependant upon the aerodynamics of the aircraft. in simple words, stores need to be able to separate from the aircraft safely 99% of the time and any chance of the following is avoided as best as possible.

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Oh, and the AIM-9 being launched off rails as it is, will likely damage the fuselage from 5L and 5R if I am not mistaken. There was a twin-launcher being designed for AIM-120s (stations 3 and 7 I believe) but I do not know if it was ever deployed. Sorry, memory is a little sketchy on these points.

Dual Missile Rails/Droptanks

http://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10483
 
If these 8 vipers are coming to us then the final number will be at ?
 
The author of the Diplomat post had a typo, but he was referring to the 14 ex-Jordanian F-16s the PAF got interested in a while ago. Turkish Aerospace Industries told Defense News that it was in talks with the PAF to get those F-16s upgraded.
 
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Just a nice pic
 
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