The Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon is a multirole jet fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force. Designed as a lightweight, day-time Visual Flight Rules (VFR) fighter, it evolved into a successful multirole aircraft.

Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon Specifications

General characteristics

• Crew: 1
  • Length: 49 ft 5 in
  • Wingspan: 32 ft 8 in
  • Height: 16 ft
  • Wing area: 300 ft²
  • Empty weight: 18,900 lb
  • Loaded weight: 26,500 lb
  • Powerplant: 1× F110-GE-100 afterburning turbofan

• Performance

  • Maximum Speed:
  • -At sea level - Mach 1.2 (915 mph)
  -At altitude - Mach 2+ (1,500 mph)
  • Range: 2,620 mi
  • Service ceiling: 60,000 ft
  • Rate of climb: 50,000 ft/min
  • Wing loading: 40 lb/ft²
  • Armament
    Guns: 1 × 20 mm M61 Vulcan gatling gun, 511 rounds
• Hardpoints: 2 × wing-tip Air-to-air missile launch rails, 6 × under-wing & 3 × under-fuselage pylon stations holding up to 17,000 lb of payload
  • Rockets:
    -4 × LAU-61/LAU-68 rocket pods (each with 19 × / 7 × Hydra 70 mm rockets, respectively) or
    • -4 × LAU-5003 rocket pods (each with 19 × CRV7 70 mm rockets) or
    • -4 × LAU-10 rocket pods (each with 4 × Zuni 127 mm rockets)
  • Missiles:
    Air-to-air missiles:
    • -2 × AIM-7 Sparrow or
    • -6 × AIM-9 Sidewinder or
    • -6 × IRIS-T or
    • -6 × AIM-120 AMRAAM or
    • -6 × Python-4
    • Air-to-ground missiles:
      • -6 × AGM-45 Shrike or
      • -6 × AGM-65 Maverick or
      • -4 × AGM-88 HARM
    • Anti-ship missiles:
      • -2 × AGM-84 Harpoon or
      • -4 × AGM-119 Penguin
    • Bombs:
      • -2 × CBU-87 Combined Effects Munition
      • -2 × CBU-89 Gator mine
      • -2 × CBU-97 Sensor Fuzed Weapon
      • -Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser capable
      • -4 × GBU-10 Paveway II
      • -6 × GBU-12 Paveway II
      • -6 × Paveway-series laser-guided bombs
      • -4 × JDAM
      • -4 × Mark 84 general-purpose bombs
      • -8 × Mark 83 GP bombs
      • -12 × Mark 82 GP bombs
      • -B61 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 US gallon Sargent Fletcher drop tanks for ferry flight or extended range/loitering time.
    • Avionics
      -AN/APG-68 radar

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