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Hill's 34th FS completes Operation Noble Eagle deployment Apr 16, 2007 - Hill AFB's 34th Fighter Squadron's "Rude Rams" recently completed a deployment in direct support of homeland defense, called Operation Noble Eagle. [Read more...]	F-16s use new 20mm ammo in battle Mar 02, 2007 - Air Force F-16 pilots employed a new 20mm cannon round in their M61/A1 'Vulcan' Gatling guns for the first time, first validating the rounds at a firing range on Feb. 22, and then employing them in battle Feb. 26. [Read more...]

Misawa pilots head for Red Flag training exercise Jan 07, 2007 - In Friday morning's wee hours, more than 10 F-16s with the 13th Fighter Squadron at Misawa headed over the Pacific Ocean toward Nellis AFB, Nev., for the elite combat training exercise known as Red Flag. [Read more...]	Two F-16s that flew 9/11 to be displayed Dec 26, 2006 - One of three F-16s that patrolled the skies over Washington, D.C., during the 2001 terrorist attacks now headed to the McChord Air Force Base Museum in Washington state. [Read more...]
Belgium F-16s to police Baltic airspace Dec 01, 2006 - 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. [Read more...]	Hooligans F-16 ADFs mothballed Nov 21, 2006 - Three more F-16s left from the North Dakota National Air Guard base in Fargo this morning... never to return. [Read more...]
Italian F-16 scrambled to excort Excel Airways 767 after bomb threat Aug 18, 2006 - A British passenger plane to Egypt diverted to a southern Italian airport Friday after the pilot reported that a bomb was suspected to be on board, Italian aviation officials said. [Read more...]	Dutch F-16s scramble for stray Boeing 737 Jun 24, 2006 - When Air traffic controllers failed to establish radio contact with a Boeing 737 on its way from Bulgaria to Belfast, two F-16s from Leeuwarden AB were scrambled. [Read more...]
Team tests pod at 'LITENING' speed Apr 18, 2006 - The 416th Flight Test Squadron at Edwards AFB, working together with the 85th Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron from Eglin AFB, and the 422nd Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron from Nellis AFB, began accelerated testing of a LITENING AT targeting pod on March 17. [Read more...]	Hooligans set safety record for flying... once again Mar 07, 2006 - Pilots for the North Dakota Air National Guard's 119th Fighter Wing in Fargo set a record of 70,000 hours of accident-free flying. [Read more...]

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