Their threat environment is obviously far greater than ours, yet they seem to think that they can maintain a strategic advantage over those who might attack them simply by doing upgrades to their F-16s.
It seems to be an argument that makes some sense to me, but in our situation, where our threat environment is not nearly as extant, are you able, in effect, to maintain our readiness out to 2018 or 2020, if necessary, with the F-18s?