The Penguin…
I hate that airplane with a passion. We could have F-15s with that tech, F-22s, Tomcat 21s…
Instead, we got the F-105 redux…
"It can do everything!"
Except fly. You want to fly a brick, you need moar engine. You want to turn fast, you need more wing and control surface area. You want to fly fast, you can't have your shit floppin' out in the wind, or you need moar engine. You want to drop a lotta bombs from that one plane, you need to flop your shit out in the wind.
You want to shoot down the fighters coming to keep you from dropping all those bombs, you need to fly fast and turn fast.
God, I hate that plane…. 20 years to copy the F-22s electronic warfare suite into a gimped F-16.