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F-16 Fighting Falcon Block 80: The Mini F-15EX Eagle II That Must Be Built?

Key Points and Summary - USAF leaders floated an “F-16 Block 80” as a faster, cheaper way to bolster a shrinking fighter force. -The concept would build on export-only Block 70/72 jets—much like ...
The Aviationist

New Photos Show USAF F-16 Equipped with Six Rocket Pods for APKWS II

The U.S. Air Force’s 20th Fighter Wing (FW) at Shaw AFB, South Carolina, has released images of one of its F-16C/D Fighting Falcons loaded with six seven-round LAU-131 A/A rocket pods on Triple ...
Flightglobal

First F-16V arrives in Bulgaria

The first in a new fleet of Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 70 fighters has arrived in Bulgaria. Lockheed and the Bulgarian government marked the delivery on 13 April, with plans to hand over seven more ...
American Machinist

Lockheed Wins $3.8B Project to Update F-16s

Lockheed Martin will work with a Polish defense contract to carry out a $3.8-billion modernization of Poland’s F-16 fighter aircraft fleet, to achieve the advanced F-16 Viper configuration. The ...
The National Interest

F-15 vs. F-16: How Do America’s Two Most Iconic Warplanes Compare?

The F-15 was built to be big, tough, and powerful, while the F-16 was built to be small, smart, and fast. The F-15 Eagle and the F-16 Fighting Falcon are both iconic American fighter aircraft. Often ...