Rafael introduces Python 5, the latest member of the Python Air-to-Air Missile Family. The new, fifth generation air-to-air missile provides the pilot engaging an enemy aircraft with a full sphere launch capability.

The Senate bill is amended to include to $20 million toward new engines for three squadrons of Air National Guard f-16 fighters

The Viper has landed in this expansion pack for for Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator 3 and Flight Simulator 2000.

The U.S. goverment offered 12 F-16 MLU (10 F-16A/2 F-16B) to Mexico to replace the 8 F-5Es and 2 F-5Fs currently in service with the Mexican Air Force.

Five military bases will be shut down in the Netherlands and 9,000 of a total of 70-thousand jobs within the armed forces will be scrapped as part of a major cost-cutting operation announced by the Dutch defence ministry on Monday. Parliament in The Hague seems ready to accept the plans.

In an exercise to see how fast the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) can recall its overseas-based assets, last Saturday four of its F-16 Fighting Falcons flew 17,000km from Arizona in the United States to Singapore in six days.

The Dutch minister of defense H.G.J. Kamp announced that, because of financial constraints, the participation in operation Enduring Freedom will not be prolonged after October 1st. From July 1st onwards, the Netherlands will also reduce the number of F-16's it is contributing to the European Participating Air Forces (EPAF) from six to four.

The first Portuguese Air Force F-16 MLU took off from OGMA facilities, in Alverca, on June 26th in a ceremony attended by the Portuguese prime minister, José M. Durão Barroso.

Lockheed Martin has successfully completed the initial phase of flight testing of a more powerful engine for the latest version of the F-16, the Block 60. The engine is a General Electric F110-GE-132 turbofan engine which is derived form the current F110-GE-100 and F110-GE-129 engines powering the majority of F-16C/Ds world-wide.

The Melbourne Airport Authority wants F-16 fighter jets out of Melbourne International Airport (Florida - USA) because of the noise and safety issues they have created.

"Star Wars" laser battles may have happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but for the U.S. Air Force they're just now starting to become a reality. A new high energy laser weapon and F-16 flight simulator is being designed by the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Theater Aerospace Command Control Simulation Facility at Kirtland Air Force Base.

On June 24th, President George W. Bush declared the US would not hand over the embargoed F-16 Fighting Falcons to Pakistan after all. The past week, rumours had circulated that the 28 F-16A/B Block 15OCU aircraft -which Pakistan has paid for but which were embargoed due to 1990s anti-nuclear sanctions- might be delivered after all.

Singapore will soon short-list three candidates in the race for a contract to supply the city-state with a new squadron of fighter jets, Singapore's defence ministry said today.

According to Indian newssources, the Pentagon has denied reports that the US plans to release advanced versions of F-16s to Pakistan. "It is a completely false story," Commander Randy Sandoz, a Pentagon spokesman, said yesterday referring to media reports about the deal.

The U.S. military won't pursue charges of involuntary manslaughter, aggravated assault or dereliction of duty against two F-16 pilots who mistakenly bombed Canadian soldiers last year in Afghanistan, killing four.