What did he mean by this?
Belgium picks Lockheed's F-35 over Eurofighter on price
Charles Morgan
Camden Diaz
Well at least it doesn't use fuel as a hydraulic fluid and a coolant.
Jose Morales
Reminder
Joshua Campbell
Rafale is the closest thing to what F-35 was supposed to be minus the stealth and it's still pretty stealthy.
Colton Butler
The F-16 is stealthier and it wasn't even designed as a stealth aircraft.
Wyatt Martinez
But it has neither canards nor a carrier-capable version.
Logan Evans
That's very likely.
Kayden Ramirez
Could it be modified with canards without upsetting the balance or harmonics of the airframe? More importantly, how does the F-16's maneuverability compare to the Typhoon and Rafale? I know it already handles better than the F-35, but would it need canards to compete with the other two fighters? I guess these questions are less relevant if you want canards for lift purposes.
About carrier use, it was simply never designed for that. I wonder how hard it'd be to adapt.
Jace Hall
The Rafale is not a stealth plane… what makes the Rafale stealthy is widely suspected to be ACTIVE cancellation tech, coupled to powerful smart noise jammers.
French approach to stealth is "who cares if you're seen as long the missiles don't hit", which is the sane approach to the "stealth" issue.
Of course it means you can't murdernuke Russia or China in their sleep which is what the US wants (but we're totally not the evil ones goy! Remember that).
Austin Reed
An F-16 with canards is pretty much a Grippen.