Certainly, Lockheed Martin could not be absent from FIA2024 (Farnborough International Airshow), as one of the key players in the international aeronautics scene. The company proudly celebrates 50 years of the F-16 Fighting Falcon. Starting from a solid and well-executed…

Top Aces, the world’s only privately commercial operator of the F-16 aircraft for advanced adversary air (ADAIR) training, announces the integration of an infrared search and track (IRST) capability on its F-16 Advanced Aggressor Fighter (AAF) platform. This sophisticated IRST…

Air superiority is becoming increasingly important after the September 11 attacks, security criteria for civil aviation have been increased and air forces have become a part of the monitoring and implementation process in order to prevent a similar problem, when…

Lockheed Martin is proud to announce the successful delivery of the first two F-16 Block 70 for Slovakia. These advanced aircraft represent not only a leap in technology but also a firm commitment to enhancing Slovakia's national security. OJ Sanchez,…

​Two US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons assigned to the 31st Fighter Wing from Aviano Air Base, Italy, conducted bilateral air-to-ground training with joint terminal attack controllers from U.S. Special Operations Command Europe and Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina…

Defense Minister Bjørn Arild Gram this week visited Bodø Airport, where the Norwegian F-16s used for airspace defense are based. Norway is about to transfer two of its F-16 fighter planes to Denmark which will train and educate ukrainian fighter pilots. Norway is…

A Turkey more far away from NATO is the impression that emerges after our visit to the Anatolian Eagle exercise 2021. No NATO aircraft was partecipating in the exercise, except the obeservers. Estabilished in 2001, the Anatolian eagle viewed in…

As the electromagnetic spectrum becomes more contested and congested worldwide, modern electronic warfare systems are essential equipment for tactical aircraft. Northrop Grumman’s F-16 electronic warfare suite for international operators draws upon the technologies developed for the United States F-16 fleet.…

May 2021 marked a historic milestone for the F-16 fleet of Poland. Since the delivery of the first two aircraft in November 2006, the Polish F-16 fleet has achieved 100.000 flight hours. “This completion of 100.000 flight hours proves the…

U.S. Air Force Airmen and F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned to the 31st Fighter Wing, Aviano Air Base, Italy, arrived at Andravida Air Base, Greece, to support international exercise INIOCHOS 21. The exercise is a Hellenic air force-sponsored operational and…

U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons and Airmen assigned to the 31st Fighter Wing participated in an Agile Combat Employment (ACE) exercise at Amendola Air Base, Italy on Feb. 16-17, 2021. The 555th and 510th Fighter Squadrons executed counter air…

Airbus has achieved the first ever fully automatic air-to-air refuelling (A3R - Automatic Air-to-Air Refuelling) operation with a boom system. The flight test campaign, conducted earlier in the year over the Atlantic Ocean, involved an Airbus tanker test aircraft equipped…

Twelve Soviet-style blue, black and forest flanker-themed F-16 Fighting Falcons took flight from a frigid 20-below-zero airfield in the Alaskan frontier to traverse the Pacific to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, to unleash havoc during exercise Cope North 2020 (CN20),…

The 18th Aggressor Squadron (AGRS) are leaving Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, after participating in Sentry Aloha 20-1 Jan. 8-22, 2020. The 18th AGRS sent a mobile training team (MTT) to the island to train alongside Pacific partners. Their mission—know,…

The 18th Aggressor Squadron departed Eielson this week to participate in exercise Sentry Aloha 20-1, which is scheduled to take place Jan. 8-22 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawai, hosted by Hawaii Air National Guard. For more than 20 years, Sentry…

One of Misawa Air Base’s most famous flightline assets hit a historic milestone June 10. A 29-year-old Block-50 F-16 Fighting Falcon, tail number 808 and affectionately known as “BOB,” reached 10,000 flight hours during a sortie flown across Japan. BOB…

Greece is member of  NATO since 1952, and it has a fondamental role in the defence of the southern border of Athlantic Alleance. However, Greece has been involved in the long “cold war” with Turkey, its eternal rival, even member…

The 493rd Fighter Squadron Grim Reapers assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England recently completed exercise One Sky over the sovereign skies of Poland Sept. 18 – 20. The bilateral U.S., Poland training event focused…

The USAFE Aviano based 510th Fighter Squadron “Buzzards” completed a two-week flying training deployment to the United Kingdom Aug. 6, 2018, at RAF Lakenheath, England. During the event, fourteen F-16C Fighting Falcons and approximately 200 Airmen, assigned to the 31st…

On 3 January 2018, 6 Dutch F-16 fighters left for the Middle East from Volkel Air Base to join the international coalition currently fighting against the ISIS terrorist organisation. The Royal Netherlands Air Force combat aircraft F-16 Fighting Falcons, 2…