The US Department of State has approved Jordan’s purchase of 16 Lockheed Martin F-16C/D fighters for an estimated cost of $4.21 billion. The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) delivered the ...

Facing Kaliningrad, Belarus, and a live war next door, Poland is pushing its F-16s to the Viper standard with APG-83 radar, Viper Shield, and standoff punch to hold the line while F-35s spin up.

A new RAND Corporation report warns that “interoperability” within NATO air forces is largely a myth, creating significant ...

Talks with Lockheed Martin to upgrade Greece’s 38 F-16C/D Block 50s remain stalled, while new jets won’t arrive before 2031 and will need upkeep soon after. Greece signed on Jul. 25, 2024, a Letter of ...

As part of the contract, Poland will upgrade its entire fleet of 48 F-16C/D Block 52+ jets to the F-16V Block 72 standard. The Polish Defense Minister Wladysław Kosiniak-Kamysz has signed a deal worth ...

Summary and Key Points: Turkey is set to receive a new batch of modernized F-16 Fighting Falcons, as it signed a letter of acceptance (LOA) this month for forty new F-16C/D Block 70/72 aircraft and ...

The US Air Force currently operates around 840 F-16s of different variants, while the Republic of Korea Air Force also maintains a fleet of 180 F-16C/D aircraft. In June 2024, the US Seventh Air Force ...

An F-16 operated by the Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center (NAWDC), the organization that includes the famous TOPGUN school, ran off the runway at Naval Air Station Lemoore, California, in ...

Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) has adapted its Lockheed Martin F-16A/B Avionics Capabilities Enhancement (ACE) upgrade for later versions of the fighter. IAI has made the move as it believes the ...

An F-16 Fighting Falcon assigned to the 8th Fighter Wing at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, crashed in an agricultural area about 11½ miles from Osan Air Base at approximately 9:45 a.m. Saturday. The ...

F-16C aircraft from the 114th Fighter Wing park on the apron after arriving at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., on July 19, 2021. This photo underwent color correction. (Tech. Sgt. Jordan M. Hohenstein ...