Switzerland select Grippen

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

lol seriously? The USAF is planning on using the F-16 until 2025!! Man, the Falcon is a great little multirole jet!

lol too - actually the have to keep in air because the F35 never got ready.
And again, the ground attack capabilities are irrelevant - for us.
Afaik they still produce some new F16s for NICs.

If the Tiger wasn't such bitch to maintain and had a bigger airframe with space for modern avionics I'd vote to keep them.