The F-16, and the B-52, testaments to American ingenuity and know-how. Hopefully, that engineering prowess will pay off with the newer series you are looking to build. American knowhow and muscle is where it’s at!
Rather, they are testimony to stagnation in military thought and art. F-16s didn’t protect us on 9-11 against an enemy that didn’t care about the laws of war, and didn’t feel bound to match us strength to strength.
It is like this. Your virus=protection software protects from a computer virus circulated in 1993. That is not because the virus protection software is so very good.