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Vehicle I-D: Mitsubishi F-2, sure looks like an F-16

The Mitsubishi F-2 looks like the General Dynamics F-16 because it was developed directly from the F-16, with cooperation from General Dynamics.

F-2As escort a B-1B, 22APR2020

F-2A, Anderson Air Force Base, Guam, February 2020

U.S. Air Force video of F-2As over Guam, February 2020:

However, the F-2 is actually larger than the F-16, just the wing area of the F-2 is reportedly 25% larger than that of the F-16.

F-2A arrives Yokota Air Base, September 2019

Refueling over Alaska, June 2019

Video of F-2A being refueled over Alaska during Red Flag 19-2:

Misawa, Japan, 2018

Misawa 2018

Misawa, 2017, F-2 compared to….

…F-16, Misawa, 2017

F-2, Guam 2018

Guam, February 2016

The F-2 canopy is the only obvious visually different thing compared to the F-16

Note the F-16 canopy, Misawa 2017

Koku Jieitai = Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF)

XF-2B prototype, Yokota Air Base, September 2017

Two seater F-2B, Misawa 2018

Two seat F-2B, Iwakuni 2017

2017, MCAS Iwakuni

Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, 2017

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