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When an F-16 crashed, hydrazine vapors forced all of the crews participating in a Red Flag sortie to remain inside their aircraft and prevent...

Exercise: Red Flag In order to lessen pilots' susceptibility and high loss rate in their first five combat missions, the US Air Force planned to...

Why the Wolf Pack F-16 has a unique tail flash in honor of Robin Olds’s F-4C Phantom II

F-16 honoring Robin Olds This post has an intriguing photo that was taken on September 17, 2023, at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea. It...

F-16 Viper on celluloid — The Iron Eagle series

While the F-14 Tomcat was shown off in Top Gun, the F-16 Fighting Falcon used the questionable Iron Eagle series to demonstrate the machine's...

The F-4G had a small likelihood of surviving a DACT engagement with the F-15 Eagle, but had no chance against the F-16 Viper

‘The small chance we had against an F-15 Eagle was gone against the F-16 Viper. Not even putting down the landing gear and letting...

For the 349th Squadron’s 80th anniversary, the Belgian Air Force painted an almost 50-year-old F-16 in an exclusive paint scheme

On November 4, 2022, the F-16 was shown to an audience of enthusiasts while escorting a WWII Spitfire fighter—a model that the 349 (F)...

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How outdated WWII tactics and Soviet-manned SAMs led to the loss of 15 B-52s in Operation Linebacker II

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