The aircraft were developed from basic F-16 airframes with the most notable difference is the delta cranked. This could make the F-16XL into a bomb and missile truck what we would call beast mode today. With the F-16XL the US Air Force has the option to gain markedly improved range payload and survivability performance..
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The aircraft were developed from basic F-16 airframes with the most notable difference is the delta cranked. This could make the F-16XL into a bomb and missile truck what we would call beast mode today. With the F-16XL the US Air Force has the option to gain markedly improved range payload and survivability performance..
By Alex Hollings For more than forty years the F-16 Fighting Falcon has served as the backbone of the US Air Forces fighter fleet but one year before the first F-16 entered service. The General Dynamics F-16XL is a derivative of the F-16 Fighting Falcon with a cranked-arrow delta wing It entered the United States Air Force s USAF Enhanced Tactical Fighter. The F-15E enjoyed many of the F-16XLs advantages and brought its own It was slightly faster at Mach 25 could fly higher and crucially boasted two. General Dynamics GD entered one of their designs in the Enhanced Tactical Fighter ETF competition to replace the F-111 but lost out to what became the McDonnell. Actually it gets better the more bombs you have under the wing I think the F-15E was the right choice for the competition but in my opinion the F-16XL was to good to go to waste..
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