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Ground Mishap Involving F-16 and Weapons Loader Results in $30 Million Damage
A U.S. Air Force F-16C was struck by an out-of-control MJ-1 jammer, causing a fuel leak. Sparks emitted from the jammer ignited a fire that engulfed both ...
How a parked F-16 suffered $30 million in damage
A new Air Force report on a November 2023 mishap shows how confusion led to a bomb lift crashing into a F-16 and setting it ...
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Ukrainian F-16 fighter pilots have had to dramatically change the way they fly after long flying Soviet jets, and it's a lot to overcome
An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Ukraine's F-16 pilots have had to dramatically change the way they fly in a very short period of time in order to fight Russia, and it's a ...
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Final Flight: The Dutch F-16’s Farewell Flight At Volkel Air Base
Focus on the final flight of the Dutch F-16 over the Netherlands. As already reported here, on Sept. 27, 2024, the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) bid farewell to its iconic F-16 Fighting ...
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Watch Turkey’s ‘Solo Turk’ F-16 Demo Jet’s Close Call During A Recent Airshow
One of the best-known military jet demonstrations currently active, the Turkish Air Force’s ‘Solo Turk’ F-16 team, appears to have had an extremely close call at a recent airshow.
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What made this Russian fighter jet's shockingly aggressive maneuvers near a US F-16 so dangerous
An image of a chain link. It symobilizes a website link url. Copy Link A Russian aircraft's aggressive maneuvering around a US F-16 in the skies near Alaska late last month was condemned this week ...
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Russia Claims It Downed F-16 Jet in Ukraine, Gets Brutal Community Note
Russia has said that its forces shot down an F-16 fighter jet over Ukraine, prompting a brutal fact check. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday, the Russian Embassy in South Africa posted a ...
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Ukraine's Air Force Will Soon Have Even More F-16 Fighters
The U.S. and the United Kingdom have also helped in training Ukrainian pilots and maintainers on the F-16 aircraft. Transferring fighter jets to Ukraine isn’t the end.
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Has the Ukrainian F-16 Got First Blood?
A number of pro-Kremlin milbloggers picked up on claims made early on Saturday that a Russian Sukhoi Su-34 (NATO: Fullback) fighter-bomber had been shot-down about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the ...
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Did Ukraine Lose More F-16 Fighter Aircraft in Thursday’s Missile Attack?
Photo: wikicommons. The report cited a Ukrainian milblogger Anatoly Shariy who suggested on his Telegram channel that as many as four F-16 fighters were hit on the ground during a surprise attack on ...
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Netherlands says farewell to its F-16 fighter jets
A farewell flyover featuring some six to eight F-16 fighter jets will grace the skies over the country’s military airfields – including in Soesterberg, Breda, Eindhoven and The Hague – on Friday ...
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Netherlands declares FOC for F-35, retires F-16
The F-35A (pictured) has now taken on all the roles of the F-16 in RNLAF service. (Royal Netherlands Air Force) The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) has declared its fleet of Lockheed Martin F ...