U.S. fighter jets blasting spy balloons from the sky have North Texas ties

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U.S. fighter jets blasting spy balloons from the sky have North Texas ties
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When the F-16 production line in west Fort Worth was rocking and rolling in the late 1980s, it employed tens of thousands of workers and churned out nearly...

While the Pentagon has completed its own purchases of F-16s, orders continue to come in from international customers., took off last month.

U.S. fighter aircraft had encountered high costs and other problems in the Vietnam War era. The F-16 design offered a lighter, cheaper and more maneuverable alternative to the heavier, missile-focused fighters that had come before. The Pentagon said the object’s path and altitude posed a hazard to civil aviation and represented a surveillance risk, though not a “kinetic military threat.” Many questions remain about that object and others spotted in recent days.

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