A US F-16 pilot outflew a 15-minute barrage of enemy missiles during a Middle East mission in March. He made extreme turns to avoid explosions just feet away, according to an Air Force award citation.

“In historic first, the first group of Ukrainian combat pilots has finished preliminary flight training from within the British Isles clearing the way to improved air defense as the nation despite ...

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The world’s only self-flying F-16 has quietly crossed a threshold that once belonged to science fiction, shifting from a lab curiosity into a frontline testbed for autonomous combat. The X-62A VISTA ...

Nearly half a century after its maiden flight, the F-16 Fighting Falcon, or "Viper" as its pilots call it, continues to be ...

Though Ukrainian pilots have praised the F-16 itself, they have criticized NATO tactics for relying too much on air superiority—a luxury that Ukraine does not have. The US-made F-16 Fighting Falcon ...