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Details of the potential sale to Pakistan
PAF F-16A #85726 and F-16B #84608 on a training mission over the city of Lahore armed with Sidewinders [PAF photo]
Jul 05, 2006 - Last week U.S. Congress was notified of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Pakistan F-16 aircraft as well as associated equipment and services. Here is a detailed list of this potential sale along with some of the controversies it might create. [Read more...]
US to sell 18 new F-16 jets to Pakistan
PAF F-16A's #83703 and #84704 in tight formation above some hostile terrain. [PAF photo by Usman Shabbir]
Jun 30, 2006 - The US State Department decided to sell Pakistan 18 new F-16s with an option for 18 more. The US also offers to acquire and upgrade 26 used F-16A/B aircraft from U.S. inventories and to upgrade Pakistan's current fleet of 34 F-16s. [Read more...]
U.S. F-16s to visit Serbia
Jun 22, 2006 - Two USAFE F-16 jets are to visit a Serbian army airport later this week as part of increased military cooperation, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday. [Read more...]
Danish F-16 sucessfully tests the enhanced Paveway II
RDAF F-16AM #E-608 showing the signs of its Afghanistan adventure at Aalborg AB on June 4th, 2004. Note the 4 LGB signs before the canon mouth and also the camel marking. [Photo by Erik Frikke]
Jun 19, 2006 - The Royal Danish air force recently conducted a series of tests of the Raytheon Enhanced Paveway II precision guided weapon. [Read more...]
149th Fighter Wing trains with bombs in Arizona
SSgt. Christopher Cortez, a crew chief with the 149th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, guides instructor pilot Maj. Mark Jennings on the ramp at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. during exercise Coronet Cactus 2006 in April. Two hundred-thirty members of the 149th Fighter Wing deployed to Tucson to conduct training that included dropping heavy ordnance, both live and inert, on the Barry Goldwater Bombing Range. [USAF photo by MSgt. Rene Castillo]
May 17, 2006 - The bombs are heavy and so is the training schedule for student pilots under the tutelage of the 149th Fighter Wing. [Read more...]
Hill team gives F-16 second life
USAF F-16C block 30 #86-0242 of 192 FS, seen here at Hill AFB during depot level maintainance. [Photo by Thomas Wharton]
May 11, 2006 - It was a long time in coming, but the completion of an F-16 damaged in an accident at Hill AFB December 2000 will save taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. [Read more...]
F-16 crashes near Utah's Salt Lake
Crash site in Tooele County, Salt Lake City, Utah. The crash debris was scattered over an area 150 yards wide and about a half-mile long. [Media screenshots]
Mar 31, 2006 - An F-16C from Hill Air Force Base was on a training mission with three other jets when something went wrong and the pilot ejected. The jet crashed around 15.00h, approximately 30 miles west of Hill Air Force Base after the pilot ejected safely. [Read more...]
Norway signs contract for JDAM
Maj. Don Sheesley, 416th Flight Test Squadron project pilot, releases for the first time ever a 500-pound Joint Direct Attack Munition. In support of real-world operations, testers from the Global Power Fighters Combined Test Force here performed accelerated testing to equip the F-16 with a 500-pound JDAM, or GBU-38, that was completed July 16. [Photo by Jim Shryne ]
Feb 20, 2006 - The Boeing Company will provide the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) weapon system to the Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF) under an agreement recently reached with Norway. [Read more...]
Singapore F-16s deploy to India for air exercise SINDEX 06
RSAF F-16D Block 52 #672 of the 145th sqn pictured against the morning sun at Paya Lebar AB on June 15th, 2005. [Photo by Superskyhawk]
Jan 03, 2006 - The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is holding a bilateral air exercise with the Indian Air Force from 03 to 20 January. Eight RSAF F-16s flew into Kalaikunda Air Force Station in Eastern India for the exercise. [Read more...]
The F-16: 'It just looks like a fighter'
Nov 20, 2005 - Early in development, critics called the plane too small and slow. The Air Force, at first, didn't want it. But now the U.S. military — and many of its allies around the world — can't live without the F-16. [Read more...]
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