Does any one see a problem with this?

[Felix_Nietsche]

"According to the experts here, an F16 is pretty much a piece of junk only suitable for crop dusting."
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No....You just need to read a simple one page article on the F16 before you make silly claims about the plane.

[cardcounter0]

Sure. Here is some of its air-to-surface capabilities. No reason why missles couldn't be tipped with small nukes.

Air-to-surface missiles carried on the F-16 include Maverick, HARM and Shrike missiles, manufactured by Raytheon, and anti-ship missiles include Boeing Harpoon and Kongsberg Penguin.

The first guided launch of the new Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) was successfully carried out from an F-16 and the F-16 was the first USAF aircraft to be fitted with the Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) in April 2000.

The F-16 can be fitted with Lockheed Martin Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser (WCMD), which provides precision guidance for CBU-87, -89, and 97 cluster munitions. The system corrects for launch transients, ballistic errors, and winds aloft.

The F-16 will be the first aircraft to use the USAF's new weapon rack, the Edo Corporation BRU-57. The BRU-57 is a vertical ejection rack which doubles the aircraft's capacity for precision-guided weapons like JDAM and WCMD.

[Felix_Nietsche]

So?
And your point is?

These countries already have planes that will carry nukes.
So excuse me if I don't join you in your sky-is-falling panic attack.

[Felix_Nietsche]

http://www-cgi.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/am....venezuela.ap/

[radek2166]

lets give them nukes.

[BillUCF]

The F-16 comes in versions A, B, C, D, E, and F. Maybe more since I was in the USAF. We sell the stripped down versions to 3rd world countries like Pakistan. From a military point of view it is to our advantage to sell these aircraft to Pakistan as opposed to Pakistan getting aircraft from some other country. Since we make the F-16 and know every capability of the aircraft, if we end up having to fight against it one day we know exactly what we would be up against. We would be able to destroy all of their F-16's quite easily if it came to that. Also it provides business for US industry as opposed to a business from another country.

[Dr. Strangelove]

This is an interesting point, and not without merit. I would rather we were more open about the fact that the Pentagon is just our society's way of publicly subsidizing high technology. I'd rather we didn't have to build better weapons so we have better weapons than the people we sold our old one's to. If you think about it spending on weapons is a huge waste of money, because they aren't wealth. The work that goes into building them doesn't result in wealth the way investment in infrastructure does.