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With F-35 In Limbo, Air Force Studies Legacy Fighter Upgrade Mix

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By Marina Malenic The Air Force is analyzing what mix of modernization efforts will best suit its legacy fighter fleet in case further delays to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program materialize, the service's chief airpower provider said yesterday. "If indeed what we're hearing is right [regarding F-35 development delays], we'll have to make some of those decisions to extend some of these F-16s a little bit further and possibly make some upgrades in both avionics and structurally," Gen. William…

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