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2013-09-26 Science & Technology

Empty F-16 jet tested by Boeing and US Air Force

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-09-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The jet - which had previously sat mothballed at an Arizona site for 15 years...

Maybe I wasn't paying attention. Why has a perfectly good F-16 been mothballed for 15 years? Clintonian Peace Dividend?

Posted by Bobby 2013-09-26 06:13|| 2013-09-26 06:13|| Front Page Top

#2 ..soon the be joined by a fleet of A-10s as well.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-09-26 09:22|| 2013-09-26 09:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Bobby, a lot of the planes at the boneyard are early models, like the F-16A/B variants. A lot of them are probably 30 years old.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2013-09-26 11:09|| 2013-09-26 11:09|| Front Page Top

Posted by 3dc 2013-09-26 12:53|| 2013-09-26 12:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Can't wait to see remote control BUFFs and BONES...

Posted by M. Murcek 2013-09-26 12:53|| 2013-09-26 12:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Should be doing this with F-14s, paint them with Iranian colors and play head games over the Gulf.

Posted by rjschwarz 2013-09-26 14:31|| 2013-09-26 14:31|| Front Page Top

#7 They also doing this to mu favorite modern fighter, the F-4 Phantom. The remaining flyable ones are being turned into target drones. I got to see one (with a human pilot, not being a target) at an air show last year.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2013-09-26 15:34|| 2013-09-26 15:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Were being turned into drones, not too many left now, that's why the F-16 is being pressed into duty.

Posted by Shipman 2013-09-26 16:25|| 2013-09-26 16:25|| Front Page Top

#9 rj; no Tomcats left, chopped up years ago in order to keep parts from being sold to iran through any number of third parties. only ones left in one piece are gate guards that have had all flight worthy parts pulled and are otherwise just shells. but I like the way you think.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2013-09-26 22:30|| 2013-09-26 22:30|| Front Page Top

#10 Besides everything else before, Iran + China are being labeled as the two most likely backgrounds for de facto Drone-vs-Drone War, espec CHINA as per China-vs-Japan as well as China-vs-US + China-vs-India.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-09-26 23:57|| 2013-09-26 23:57|| Front Page Top

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