The U.S. Air Force is exploring a major expansion of the F-16’s strike reach by moving Castelion’s Blackbeard hypersonic ...

The US Air Force is taking steps to integrate a hypersonic strike weapon with ...

An Air Force Thunderbird F-16 crashed in 2025 when its engine blew up, as did a training jet in New Mexico in 2024. Investigators traced both mishaps to a "blind spot" inside the engine.

The NGMC programme aims to renew the F-16's computing architecture and pave the way for future upgrades so the type can remain operational over the coming decades.

Faced with a 460-aircraft shortfall and an F-16 fleet averaging 34 years old, the U.S. Air Force is considering a radical ...

As far back as 2019, Air Force weapons developers said the fighter had received massive structural upgrades to its upper wing skin and fittings, upper and lower bulkhead, and canopy sill longeron.

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The U.S. Air Force is actively dismantling damaged F-16 Fighting Falcons to salvage critical ...

Join Louis Skupien inside an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Edwards AFB and discover the thrill of flying one of the world's most ...

The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center outlined the effort through a sources-sought notice in May 2026 and subsequently scheduled industry discussions for October 20–21 at Wright-Patterson ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 The aircraft had been due to make a high-school flyover on Friday. A U.S. F-16 fighter jet has crashed during a training drill in Michigan, after the Pentagon ...