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1. 10,000 lbs. overweight for a dogfighter, single-engined,underpowered and too slow for air supremacy.

Thu Dec 15, 2011, 09:34 AM

Dec 2011

This thing is a compromise of compromises, and is already obsolete. Not to mention, it's unaffordable. It even looks inadequate.

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