And yet now in 2015 the F-16 is a far more relevant aircraft in all phases than the F-4 was in the 1990s…gotta love the Phantom, but the F-16 of today is a far cry from the "VFR Only, target missing, ground impacting" machine the author predicted.
Well, to be precise, even 1993's F-16C Block 40 had been a far cry from the machine described in that sentence. The only thing lacking in comparison with the F-4G was the ELS, and that one would come as an option with the Block 50s.
Teething problems aside, even the basic 1980s-vintage F-16A, with its pulse-doppler radar, state-of-the-art INS and weapons computers, was both a better fighter and fighter-bomber than any F-4 at that time.
It is funny to read though
