General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is a 4th Generation multi-role fighter, single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics (now Lockheed Martin).
- Role: Multirole fighter, air superiority fighter
- National origin: United States
- Manufacturer: General Dynamics/Lockheed Martin
- First flight: 20 January 1974
- Introduction: 17 August 1978
- Status: In service
- Number built: F-16A/B/C/D: 4,573 (July 2016)
Operators
- Bahrain
- Belgium
- Chile
- Denmark
- Egypt
- Greece
- Israel
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Jordan
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Portugal
- Republic of China (Taiwan)
- Republic of Korea
- Romania
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Turkey
- United Arab Emirates
- United States
- Venezuela
Former operator
- Italy
Specifications (F-16C Block 50)
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Length: 49 ft 5 in (15.06 m)
- Wingspan: 32 ft 8 in (9.96 m)
- Height: 16 ft (4.88 m)
- Wing area: 300 ft² (27.87 m²)
- Airfoil: NACA 64A204 root and tip
- Empty weight: 18,900 lb (8,570 kg)
- Loaded weight: 26,500 lb (12,000 kg)
- Max. takeoff weight: 42,300 lb (19,200 kg)
- Internal fuel: 7,000 pounds (3,200 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 × General Electric F110-GE-129 (for F-16C/D Block 30-40-50) or Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-220/220E afterburning turbofan
- Dry thrust: 17,155 lbf (76.3 kN)
- Thrust with afterburner: 28,600 lbf (127 kN)
Performance
- Maximum speed:
- At sea level: Mach 1.2 (915 mph, 1,470 km/h)
- At altitude: Mach 2 (1,320 mph; 2,120 km/h) clean configuration
- Combat radius: 340 mi (295 nmi; 550 km) on a hi-lo-hi mission with four 1,000 lb (450 kg) bombs
- Ferry range: 2,280 nmi (2,620 mi; 4,220 km) with drop tanks
- Service ceiling: 50,000+ ft (15,240+ m)
- Rate of climb: 50,000 ft/min (254 m/s)
- Wing loading: 88.3 lb/ft² (431 kg/m²)
- Thrust/weight: 1.095 (1.24 with loaded weight & 50% internal fuel)
- Maximum g-load: +9.0 g
Armament
- Guns: 1 × 20 mm (0.787 in) M61A1 Vulcan 6-barrel rotary cannon, 511 rounds
- Hardpoints: 2 × wing-tip air-to-air missile launch rails, 6 × under-wing, and 3 × under-fuselage pylon (2 of 3 for sensors) stations with a capacity of up to 17,000 lb (7,700 kg) of stores
- Rockets:
- 4 × LAU-61/LAU-68 rocket pods (each with 19/7 × Hydra 70 mm/APKWS rockets, respectively)
- 4 × LAU-5003 rocket pods (each with 19 × CRV7 70 mm rockets)
- 4 × LAU-10 rocket pods (each with 4 × Zuni 127 mm rockets)
- Missiles:
- Air-to-air missiles:
- 2 × AIM-7 Sparrow
- 6 × AIM-9 Sidewinder
- 6 × AIM-120 AMRAAM
- 6 × IRIS-T
- 6 × Python-4
- 6 × Python-5
- Air-to-surface missiles:
- 6 × AGM-65 Maverick
- 4 × AGM-88 HARM
- AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM)
- Anti-ship missiles:
- 2 × AGM-84 Harpoon
- 4 × AGM-119 Penguin
- Air-to-air missiles:
- Bombs:
- 8 × CBU-87 Combined Effects Munition
- 8 × CBU-89 Gator mine
- 8 × CBU-97 Sensor Fuzed Weapon
- 4 × Mark 84 general-purpose bombs
- 8 × Mark 83 GP bombs
- 12 × Mark 82 GP bombs
- 8 × GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb (SDB)
- 4 × GBU-10 Paveway II
- 6 × GBU-12 Paveway II
- 4 × GBU-24 Paveway III
- 4 × GBU-27 Paveway III
- 4 × Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) series
- 4 × AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW)
- Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser (WCMD)
- B61 nuclear bomb
- B83 nuclear bomb
- Others:
- SUU-42A/A Flares/Infrared decoys dispenser pod and chaff pod or
- AN/ALQ-131 & AN/ALQ-184 ECM pods or
- LANTIRN, Lockheed Martin Sniper XR & LITENING targeting pods or
- Up to 3 × 300/330/370/600 US gallon Sargent Fletcher drop tanks for ferry flight/extended range/loitering time or
- UTC Aerospace DB-110 long range EO/IR sensor pod on centerline
Avionics
- AN/APG-68 radar
- MIL-STD-1553 bus