[Blood of Tyrants]

The best thing to do would be to incorporate RAM coatings, and retrofit other components such as redesigned tail fins using radar transparent carbon composites, canopies, inlets, etc. This will require a fraction of the engineering and flight testing.

That is basically what I meant. There are numerous "add-ons" and small, non-airframe related changes that can be made to increase capability and decrease radar cross section. But I would not think that an F-16 could withstand the abuse that an aircraft designed for carrier landings does without major modifications.

[2CAVTrooper]

Ok, I was thinking along the lines of new airframes.

[2CAVTrooper]

LM actually offered a carrier capable variant of the F-16.