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The U.S. Defense Department on Wednesday told Congress it had approved the possible sale of up to $421 million in missiles built by Raytheon to Taiwan for use on its F-16 fighter jets.

The first F-16s that will be sold to the Royal Jordanian Air Force have arrived at Florennes and Kleine Brogel 'KB' Air Bases.

The United Arab Emirates has acquired all 80 F-16 block 60 aircraft ordered from the United States.

A U.S. HDAM missile has been developed that's better at distinguishing low-power radar emitters from other electronic sources.

The 69-year-old chairperson of India's Tata group, Ratan Tata is scheduled to fly the F-16 fighter jet later this week at the Bangalore-based Aero India 2007 show.

The Air Force Materiel Command’s chief officer said engineers will try to look for ways to alleviate the workload required to maintain the aging F-16 fighter jet’s landing gear.

The Italian Air Force F-16 fleet has reached 20,000 combined flight hours during a mission in the first few days of January. This is less than 3,5 years after the aircraft came into service..

The U.S. government awarded a $635 million contract to Lockheed Martin for the upgrade of Turkey's fleet of F-16 fighter jets.

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $931.3 million contract modification for work on 20 F-16C Block 50 aircraft and 10 F-16D Block 52 aircraft under the Peace Xenia IV program. This contract is additive to a February 2006 contract for $99.7 million.

Engineers at McDonnell Douglas are starting tests to integrate the GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb on the block 30, 40, and 50 variants of the F-16 jet fighter, as well as on the F-22A fighter bomber.

Four more F-16s are scheduled to arrive in Poland Dec. 14 as part of a second wave of a 48-aircraft delivery and a $3.8 billion program executed by Aeronautical Systems Center and the Air Force Security Assistance Center Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.

F-16 pilots for the Royal Netherlands Air Force will soon begin training in the U.S. at the Air National Guard base in Springfield, Ohio.

Max "Max" Vilhelmsen, leader of the Operational Conversion Unit (OCU) at Skrydstrup FSN, passed the 4,000-hour mark in the F-16 today during a training mission with F-15 Eagles from the 493rd FS currently at Skrydstrup.

The Belgian Air Force will deploy 4 F-16 MLU aircraft to Zokniai Air Base in Lithuania, where they will be used to protect the airspace of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

KF-16s of the South Korean Air Force have deployed to Kunsan AB according to Air Force officials.