OPINION: F-16 is the greatest fighter jet of all time and we have the receipts
F 16 fighter jets takes part in the NATO Air Shielding exercise near the air base in Lask, central Poland on October 12, 2022.
If you heard it, you were lucky; it’s very rare, because restrictions bar the F-16s guarding the capital from going supersonic except in an emergency. The F-16 is a flat-out beautiful airplane. F-16 wings can withstand 9Gs – that’s nine times the force of gravity, the accepted maximum for fighter pilots.
All their F-16s had custom striped adversary paint schemes. We spent an hour jinking and banking,"committing out" on other aircraft targets as directed by master controllers. The F-16 was so smooth, I was sorry when we touched down. Lockheed Martin’s new plant in Greenville, South Carolina, is churning out four F-16s per month. F-16s will fly through the year 2060. The F-16 is truly a global aircraft flown by 25 nations from Poland to Israel to South Korea, you name it. Foreign customers will buy $64 billion worth of the jets in years to come. So while the F-16 has a mighty combat record, and a global following, it’s also the huge future tasks that establish the F-16 the Greatest Of All Time.
The U.S. Navy Blue Angels and U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds debuted a ‘Super Hornet’ flight formation, which included F-16 Fighting Falcons and F/A-18s. The moment was captured by MC2 Cody Hendrix and took place during a joint training over Naval Air Facility El Centro on March 2, 2021.
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