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QF-16s help F-35 JOTT plan for future testing
May 18, 2017 - Three QF-16s descended on Edwards recently to aid the F-35 Joint Operational Test Team with test planning. [Read more...]
QF-16 takes flight at Holloman
Feb 14, 2017 - The QF-16 drone took its first flight at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., on February 10, 2017. [Read more...]
QF-16 reaches operational capability milestone
Sep 27, 2016 - Air Combat Command declared Initial Operational Capability for the QF-16 Full-Scale Aerial Target September 23rd. [Read more...]
First production QF-16 arrives at Tyndall
Mar 23, 2015 - The first Air Force Lot 1 production QF-16 #QF-007 touched down March 11, 2015. [Read more...]
Team Target hits QF-16 mark
Sep 11, 2014 - The Air Force's newest aerial target took a major step toward preparing warfighters downrange with a realistic 4th generation replication of what they may face on the battlefield. [Read more...]
Test missile fired at QF-16
Aug 26, 2014 - On a dry, clear summer morning, Michael Macwilliam readied the QF-16 aerial target for its first live fire test. [Read more...]
Brains behind the QF-16 spearhead AF aerial target drone program
Nov 07, 2013 - Although the Air Force QF-16 flies pilotless in the skies over the Emerald Coast, they are not void of human contact. [Read more...]
Boeing QF-16 Aerial Target completes 1st pilotless flight
Sep 23, 2013 - The first unmanned QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target flight occurred September 19, 2013. The aircraft was identified as QF-16A block 15 serial #83-1110. [Read more...]
F-16s being regenerated into drones
Jul 11, 2013 - Less than three months after the last F-4 phantom II departed from the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group for drone conversion, maintainers here are already turning the wrenches on Air Combat Command's fourth generation of aerial targets, the F-16 Fighting Falcon. [Read more...]
QF-16 arrives for testing, advances 53rd WEG mission
Nov 20, 2012 - The 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group marked an important milestone in continuing to prepare the warfighter for tomorrow's threats as the first QF-16 drone arrived for developmental testing November, 19. [Read more...]
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