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You guys do know the 16 is being replaced with the 24 don't you? The most powerful plane ever flown.
Big Jim <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />


Actually Jim, the F-16 Falcon, F/A-18 Super Hornet, and the AV-8B Harrier will be replaced in starting 2013 by the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), which I believe they decided to name the Lightening II, I am not positive about the name. The F-22A Raptor just went into service December 2005 the first squadron is based in Langley Virginia, and will be replacing the F-15 Eagle. There is no such thing as the F-24. The F-22 Raptor however is one bad a$$ plane that can do things that no other fighter jet has ever done.

Sean