Anyone who has ever fired a weapon, either recreationally or as part of their job, knows where you look through the sights is where you hit a target.

It's exactly the same for combat aircraft....

A Dutch F-16 fighter plane crashed into the North Sea during a training exercise on Thursday, the first accident involving the country's air force in over three years. ...

A Belgian air force colonel was quoted Saturday as saying the country favored replacing its fleet of F-16 fighter aircraft with the planned Join Strike Fighter (JSF) being developed for the U.S. armed services. ...

Elbit Systems is to receive orders valued at more than $140million over five years to supply equipment for F-16 fighter planes to U.S. aeronautical giant Lockheed Martin Corp. ...

The governments of Israel and the United States signed a Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) on Sept. 10 providing for Israel's purchase of 50 new Lockheed Martin F-16 aircraft. The agreement follows Israel's July selection of the advanced F-16I as its new fighter. ...

Boeing and Lockheed Martin said the Chilean military was shopping for fighter jets, reviving plans it shelved last year, when the country was heading for a painful economic slump. The U.S. -based aircraft makers apparently submitted proposals three weeks ago to sell Chile about a dozen Lockheed F-16s or Boeing F-18s. ...

Taiwan blamed engine failure for the latest of several crashes of F-16 fighters and said it would seek compensation from the U.S. manufacturer, Pratt & Whitney. ...

Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems was awarded a contract worth $9. 1 million on Aug. 30 for engineering and manufacturing development of an air-to-air interrogator capability on U.S. Air Force F-16s. ...

Raytheon Company has received a $41. 2 million production award from the U.S. Air Force for its ALE-50 Towed Decoy product line. The award is for the manufacturing and delivery of ALE-50 towed decoys and decoy launch controller kits for the Air Force's F-16 aircraft. ...

LMTAS received the first increment of a contract worth $108 million on Sept. 3, to begin kit production activities for the upgrade of 64 United States Air Force Block 50/52 F-16s. This effort is part of the F-16 Common Configuration Implementation Program (CCIP) that will configure nearly 700 USAF Block 50/52 and Block 40/42 F-16 aircraft with common avionics. ...

On Aug. 27 at 10:41 a. m., the collective efforts of Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems, AlliedSignal Inc., Iridium LLC and Sensor Systems Inc. brought an exciting new technology to flight for the first time in a high-performance tactical fighter. ...