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Celebrating its 50th year of service, the F-16 Fighting Falcon remains a cornerstone of global air power, poised to continue its legacy into the mid-21st century.

I'll be flying one of most historic F-16 missions in the sim: the 1981 Israeli bombing raid to take out Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor.

Between the end of the Cold War and a president perceived as an architect of disarmament, nuclear weapons have lost their status as an “existential threat.” From the Partial Test-Ban and nuclear Non-Proliferation treaties through Reykjavík in the eighties to START I in 1991, arms control was beginning to look like it might corral nuclear proliferation…

Round about 17 years ago, aviation fans across the web hailed the retirement of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat as one of the worst tactical decisions the U.S. N...

If we told you a secret think tank full of U.S. Air Force, Department of Defense, and private defense analyst personnel once sat in a dark, smoke-filled ...

West of Fort Worth, General Dynamics builds the F-16, a good little fighter plane that could have been great if the Air Force brass had kept their hands off it.

Because the F-16’s design wouldn’t accommodate an all-weather missile system without extensive modifications, the Vought 1600 may have been able to manage carrier operations, but still wouldn’t meet the exacting needs of the branch.

The U.S. Air Force intends to continue flying its 1,200 F-16s well into the 2040s by extending the airframe’s service life from eight to twelve thousand hours.

The F-16 has been the US Air Force's workhorse fighter for more than 40 years. A carrier-capable F-16 almost did the same for the US Navy.

The F-16 was born out of the conundrum experienced by the Air Force in the Vietnam War.