Originally Posted by
George K Lee
I recall, although I don't remember exactly where, that there were some warnings a couple of years back that the early-standard jets might get left behind. It may have been when Bogdan warned that the business of bringing multiple standards of airplanes up to a common new standard, while incorporating fixes coming out of tests, with the whole process rolling forward so that the depot-upgraded airplanes were the same as new-production jets, was going to be... interesting.
It's almost as if the early F-16A/B models (that had reduced combat capability compared to the Block 15 onwards) were never upgraded to be compatible with the C/D either......