F-16

F-16 Fighting Falcon: The Warplane That Changed Aviation History Forever
The F-16 Fighting Falcon Might Not Have its Wings Clipped Anytime Soon – In September 2023, Lockheed Martin announced that it would ramp up production of its F-16 Fighting Falcons –...

The Show Isn’t Over for the U.S. Air Force’s F-16 Fighters
According to a recent interview in Air Force Magazine, the venerable F-16 fighter jet will continue to serve in the U.S. Air Force for up to another twenty years. While...

The U.S. Air Force Is Modernizing Its F-16 Fleet
Over 600 of the U.S. Air Force’s F-16 fighters will receive modifications aimed at ensuring that the fourth-generation jets remain a credible deterrent against current and anticipated future threats. The...

This U.S. Navy Fighter Jet Would Have Been Better Than the F-16
The F-16 Fighting Falcon has been the U.S. Air Force’s workhorse fighter for more than forty years, and at one point, it looked like a carrier-capable version would do the...

Taiwan Might Experience Buyers Remorse Over the F-16 Fighter
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Fighters arguably are the least important system for this new strategy, although they could play an important role firing anti-ship missiles at Chinese invasion ships,...

Who Wins When Russia’s MiG-21 Takes On the U.S. F-16 Fighter?
Here’s What to Remember: Indeed, the aerial battle in which the MiG-21 and F-16 were shot down involved, on both sides, mixed formations of old and new fighters. The Indian air...

The U.S. Air Force Is Building Artificial Intelligence Bombs for the F-16
Here’s What to Remember: The collaborative weapons experiment is showing great promise. Two Air Force F-16 jets fired Small Diameter Bombs were able to share threat data with one another while in flight...

Pakistan’s Enormous Dependence on the F-16 Fighting Falcon
Here’s What You Need to Remember: In any case, the recent aerial skirmish highlights the important capabilities F-16s continue to provide Pakistan’s military, and the continuing tensions that may evoke as...

Why Pakistan Loves Washington’s F-16 Fighting Falcon
Here’s What You Need to Remember: In response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Islamabad and Washington collaborated to train, organize and arm mujahideen resistance fighters in Afghan refugee...

Watch Gulf War Footage of an F-16 Dodging 6 Iraqi Missiles
Here’s What You Need to Know: The video is dated to January 1991. In ten minutes of hair-raising Gulf War combat footage, a U.S. F-16 pilot doggedly keeps his cool while...

Recent Report: The Air Force Still Needs the F-16 Fighting Falcon
Here’s What You Need to Remember: These innovative upgrades to the Fighting Falcon might not enable it to rival Russian or Chinese fifth-generation stealth fighter jets. Still, these upgrades may explain...

Artificial Intelligence Is the F-16’s New Secret Weapon
Here’s What You Need to Remember: At the same time, the collaborative weapons experiment is showing great promise, perhaps in large measure because artificial-intelligence-capable algorithms can be integrated into small form factors such...