Brazil canceled its plans to spend $700 million on at least 12 new fighter jets to upgrade its air force. This is a blow for Lockheed who offered 12 F-16 Fighting Falcons.

From February 21st till February 25th a KC-135FR tanker from the French Armée de l'Air will be stationned at Kleine Brogel AB, Belgium for qualification training of Belgian F-16 pilots and French KC-135 boom operators in in-flight refueling procedures.

The 332nd Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron's aerospace ground equipment (AEG) flight Airmen are a vital part of the mission at Balad air base, Iraq. The Airmen monitor the equipment for all aircraft there including the RQ/MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicles and F-16 Fighting Falcons.

The UAE will take delivery of a first batch of the highly sophisticated multi-role Block 60 F-16s in May this year, the UAE Air Force Commander disclosed in an interview on the occasion of IDEX 2005.

Today a Belgian newspaper reported that Belgium was to send 4 F-16 fighters to Afghanistan for the coming parliamentary elections. This was made public by Belgian foreign minister after his meeting with US foreign secretary Condoleezza Rice earlier this morning.

A severely damaged Egyptian F-16 will soon return to its home country, in next-to-new condition, after undergoing a complicated four-year overhaul by a team of specialized aircraft repair experts here.

The F-16 Management Directorate at the Ogden Air Logistics Center (ALC), Utah, is increasing aircraft availability for F-16 units across the Air Force by using a "big picture" approach to streamlining processes.

The CJ model of the F-16 Fighting Falcon offers cutting-edge war-time fighting capabilities. Three new upgrades have helped the aircraft here transform from suppressing enemy air defenses to destroying enemy air defenses (DEAD).

Defense Supply Center Richmond officials are working on a billion-dollar, multiyear project that will extend the service life of the Air Force's F-16 Fighting Falcons.

Mice seeking shelter in the cold Dutch winter found a short-lived home inside four Dutch air force F16 fighter jets by building nests with wiring they had gnawed loose.

Defense research institute has developed a radar-jammer aimed at protecting South Korean fighters from enemy ground-to-air and air-to-air guided missile threats, officials said earlier this week.

The fifth edition of India's premier aviation event 'Aero India 2005' may have lost a bit of its military star value with US F-16 fighters, touted as the star attraction for the event, not likely to participate.

Norwegian F-16 fighter jets were preparing Sunday to take charge of patrolling Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia's air space this week.

The U.S. Air Force and five EPAF countries - Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal - are receiving new technologies for their F-16s that will ensure the latest combat capabilities, along with an unprecedented degree of interoperability and cost savings among these NATO allies.

The Belgian ministry of defence started the dismantlement of their 31 oldest F-16 Fighting Falcons. Since their retirement from service, these jets have been stored in Weelde, near Antwerp.