A Royal Bahraini Air Force (RBAF) F-16 Block 70 fighter scored the type’s first air-to-air kill on April 1 against a pair of Iranian drones, a source familiar with the incident tells Aviation Week.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Taiwanese F-16 fighter jet and its pilot went missing off the island's northeast coast on Tuesday. Taiwan's Air Force has ...

The F-16 Fighting Falcon has been an important part of the Royal Danish Air Force since 1980, and will now pass the torch to the F-35A Lightning II. The Royal Danish Air Force’s (RDAF) F-16 Fighting ...

Following the first sighting of the new capability in December 2025, a Ukrainian F-16 was captured using APKWS II laser-guided rockets to engage a drone. A Ukrainian Air Force F-16 was captured for ...

Originally born from lessons learned during Vietnam, the F-16 has become an even more valuable tool in the Air Force’s fighter fleet. In the early 1970s, the US Air Force was forced to face difficult ...

After 46 years of service to the Royal Danish Air Force, Denmark has retired its fleet of F-16 fighter planes as of January 18, 2026. Denmark has used this versatile, but now obsolete, fighter plane ...

Rare photographs taken by The Associated Press have captured an Israeli F-16 fighter jet armed with red-marked 2,000-pound precision-guided bombs, offering an unusual look at the specific ordnance ...

Of the 24 F-16 Fighting Falcons in Venezuela’s air force, as few as five remain airworthy today. Before it bought the more modern Su-30MK2 Flanker fighter jet from Russia, Venezuela’s most advanced ...

A Bulgarian F-16C Block 70 Fighting Falcon departs the Greenville production facility on a pre-delivery test sortie. Lockheed Martin has completed manufacture of the initial eight of Bulgaria's 16 ...

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