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F-16 Fighting Falcon: Aircraft
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The F-16 Fighting Falcon serves as a multi-role fighter/bomber aircraft. It's high maneuverability has proven affective in its air-to-air combat and ground attack roles. The F-16 is strong in the air combat role because of its maneuverability and its combat radius. These same attributes ... help in the bombing role because the F-16 is capable of defending itself against enemy planes before reaching a target and yet still continue on and destroy the target with high accuracy. Also the F-16 also has equipment that will allow it to seek and destroy targets in all weather conditions.
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To that end, the F-16 Fighting Falcon will remain in frontline service with some forces for some time to come. The system has proven itself to be quite the potent adversary, either in the air-to-ground role or the air-to-air role, as it has ... proven its reliability under fire. The great care taken into the early design of this lightweight fighter has paid great dividends to the contracting firms yet also to many nations depending on a capable aircraft to defend its borders.
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F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft soared to prominence during the latter half of the 20th century. Representing the most progressive aspects of American aviation technology, the innovations they incorporated are now mainstream features of most combat planes. Both for their contributions in battle and their pivotal place in the scientific development of modern aircraft, Falcons are revered in the eyes of pilots and flight lovers alike.
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The F- 16 Fighting Falcon is one of the U.S. Air Force's frontline jet fighter aircraft. Since its introduction in 1976, the F-16 has made its mark as a true multirole fighter. Its highly manoeuvrable design has proven itself in air-to-air combat and air-to-ground attack. This aircraft provides a relatively low-cost, high-performance weapons system for the air forces of the free world.
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The single seat F-16A Fighting Falcon was introduced in 1979 by the US Air Force replacing ageing F-4 Phantom II fighter aircraft demonstrating good performance but ... some shortfalls in air-to-air engagements. The most commented shortfall of the F-16A was its inability for engagements beyond visual range compared to their soviet counterparts the MiG-23 Flogger and the MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter aircraft.
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The facility's most recent product line is aircraft canopies for the F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II. Canopy components include the "wind shield" of the aircraft -- a clear plastic bubble -- and the frame, ejection pyrotechnics and other structures that support it.
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