Hang about Wouter I'm going to ignore the majority of your post. However, I'm not convinced that this is a promotional dream etc. I can see your point of view quite clearly but that doesn't necessarily mean that 2B share the same views, in fact I would imagine the last thing they would really want to do is to market the Viper as a F16 when all their competitors are significantly lighter. Although, what would be even worse is that they could add some credibility to the disfunctional 1.04 Class.
I do hope you are right and 2B will prove successful both for the Viper and F16 but lets not get our hopes up too soon.