improved capabilities, the F-20 became competitive with contemporary fighter designs such as the GeneralDynamicsF-16FightingFalcon, but was much less expensive
showing its age. By the 1980s, quantity production of the GeneralDynamicsF-16FightingFalcon fighter was well underway in the United States; this relatively-affordable
extensive use of fly-by-wire technology. The GeneralDynamics YF-16, eventually developed into the F-16FightingFalcon, was the world's first aircraft intentionally