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F-16 crashed outside of Holloman Air Force Base, USA
An F-16 crashed outside of Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, on Tuesday around noon. The pilot safely ejected.
Iraqi F-16s to be equipped with the AN/ALQ-211 electronic warfare system
The Iraqi Air Force is to equip all 34 of its F-16C/D Block 52Ms with the AN/ALQ-211 Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare suite (AIDEWS).
USAF secretary Kendall plans to ride in AI-operated F-16 for a Sneak Peek on CCA Technology
The US Air Force is rapidly scaling up its plans to automate some of its fleet, and the US Air Force secretary says he's planning to fly in one of the autonomously piloted F-16s this spring.
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F-16 fleet - May 5, 2024
Fleet overview:
scrapped: 204
write-off: 620
preserved: 162
stored: 584
instructional: 121
on order: 125
active: 2859
Changes '23/'24:
Fleet adds: 20
Fleet drop: 59
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Today in F-16 history
May 1996
F-16s from the ANG 149th FS/192nd FW equiped with a new recce pod start flying recce missions over Bosnia in support of peace-keeping operations, marking the first deployment of USAF F-16s in the recce role.
5 May 2005
UAEAF accepts first F-16 from the Direct Commercial Sale order.
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First General Electric powered F-16
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F-16A
Modified as F-16/101 with a General Electric F101 engine and first flight with this engine was on May 29th, 1981. This engine later led to the GE F110 engine installed from block 30 onwards.
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Callsign of the day

Callsign "Slutter Chief"

The story began when I was a last year student of the Air Force Academy. Sometime at a weekend holiday night, my friends and I went out to the city, and suddenly we met a slut on the road. My friends were challenging me to speak with her, so I began to approach her. After several minutes of chit-chat, she still didn't believe that an Air Force cadet wanted to sleep with her. As the price negotiation was going on, suddenly we saw my Academy instructor walking down the road and approaching me! My friends ran and left me behind alone with an embarrassed face, I met the instructor and he said, "You're such a son of a b***h! Go home now and we'll see if that any punishment you'll get!" At the Academy, the Cadet's Honor Board gave a punishment I'll never thought before. They said, if I pass the Academy and were sent to an Operational Squadron, they'll call me "Slutter Chief", and believe it or not, my friends that were with me on the day, also got a similar callsign: "Slutter One", "Slutter Two", and "Slutter Three"... Now, 7 years after I graduated from the Academy and the Captain's insignia are on my shoulders, my counterparts still call me "Slutter Chief" ...
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