Sometimes its better to remain informed about the subject than to simply rent bias.
F-16 designers struggled with canopy, engine and cockpit issues. Those issues were handled with following steps.
From the start, the F-16 went to high-rate production; 352 airplanes were on firm order within four years and three years later, more than 500 had been delivered worldwide. This fast production was based on several important decision criteria. First,
there was confidence that the early configuration of the F-16 would be superior.to the F-4 Phantom it was replacing, even though the performance specification had not been fully demonstrated through.testing. Contractor and government tests were in parallel, and results were
shared to gain quick confidence in the basic airplane.
Second, low cost could only be achieved through high- rate production.
Third, service leaders knew that the airplanes would be continuously upgraded, so there was never a final configuration for production.
Lastly, there was never a plan to retrofit older airplanes as newer capabilities were added. Rather, each airplane configuration was fielded for a mission suited to its performance. And when retrofit was initiated, it was accomplished as part of a scheduled block change to keep the cost low.
To date, there are 138 versions of the F-16, as well as 15 block changes with each block a decisive improvement in capability.
Why the F-35?: Comparing the F-16's development with the F-35
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It took decade for USAF to admit to wire chafing problems which caused more F-16 pilot deaths in catastrophic crashes then to enemy action to THIS DAY!
The families of those pilots were LIED to and were told that all those crashed happed because of pilot error, and no compensation will be bayed by the USAF.
Well the families got together, hired investigators, and files a LAW SUIT, which they WON.
Based on these true events, HBO
made a movie named “Afterburn”
which clearly shows the heart felt
battle of all those families with the
blatant cover up by USAF and.Lockheed.
In the end the families of those pilots won the law suit, and demanded fixing and design changes which Lockheed was fighting to the end.
Here’s jus the taste of this very real article;
Insiders say an F-16 will be destroyed in a noncombat crash every 20,000 flight hours, a dismal safety record that the Air Force and the manufacturers have failed to improve.
The Air Force has spent more than $50 billion buying frontline F-16 jet fighters since 1975. But 6 million flying hours later, the service and the manufacturers still have not fixed the myriad and deadly problems that plague the plane.
http://www.ydr.com/newsfull/ci_7249436
High-Flying Troubles - United States Air Force safety record (F-16), page 1
The truth is that F-16 is the safest
AMERICAN fighter, simply because it is the ONLY single engine fighter so far, and it the most widely produce and exported NATO fighter through
out the world. The reality is that
F-16 has the world’s worst TECHNICAL failure record for single engine fighter.
And about your enuch remark do start saving innocennts from Drone strikes.