posted on Jan, 27 2017 @ 05:55 PM
a reply to:
Zaphod58
Yeah, I'm a bit of a Northrop fanboy but I'd honestly love to see Boeing win it at this point, if only because it helps keep the lights on at SAAB as
well.
As to the Northrop Model 400, they've got such a built-in market with all the nations still using F-5's that they could easily sell hundreds of
airframes to the various F-5 operators out there who really just need a cheap, single-engine multirole aircraft and are already familiar with dealing
with Northrop.
It'll be interesting for sure to see the US potentially having TWO export capable light supersonic multirole fighters. We haven't really had that
since the 60's.