Luke’s Last F-16 Squadron Sends Its Block 25 Vipers To The Boneyard
What will soon be Luke Air Force Base’s last F-16 unit, the 309th Fighter Squadron “Wild Ducks,” has now bid farewell to its oldest Vipers.
Citat:First RBAF F-16 Block 70 unveiled
On 21 November 2022, Lockheed Martin has published a photo of the first F-16D Block 70 for the Royal Bahraini Air Force (RBAF).
The RBAF has ordered sixteen Block 70 F-16s, divided over ten F-16C and six F-16D models. The now unveiled F-16D, serial 1611, is also the first production aircraft of the latest version of the F-16 aircraft, built from scratch at the Lockheed facilities at Greenville (SC).
The two-seater will undergo preliminary ground tests, and the first flight is scheduled for early 2023. Then, in the first quarter of next year, it will be handed over to the US Department of Defence (DoD) and sent to Edwards Air Force Base (CA), where pilots from Bahrain will be trained.
https://scramble.nl/military-news/first-rbaf-f-16-block-70-unveiled
Matori kaze da je A model bio nepobediv u bliskoj borbi za F-15 i F-18, da je mogao da uradi dupli imelman, da nisu mogli da ga pobede u penjanju, da nisi morao da brines o prevlacenju prevelike G sile jer je to kompjuter kontrolisao... ali da je imao dva problema, prvi da EPU nije radio bas kako treba, ukljucio bi se, poslao prejak napon koji bi kompjuter detektovao i ugasio ga da ga nebi sprzio sto bi dovelo do gasenja komandi leta, avion bi zavrsio i dalje leteci napred ali okrenut na dole sa negativnim 10 g. Jedan pilot je preziveo iskakanje, jedan je poginuo. Izvrsena je modifikacija EPU ali i smanjen stepen manevarbilnosti sa horizontalcima kako avion nebi zavrsio sa negativnim g u slucaju otkaza nego da to bar bude pozitivan g.
Drugi je da je dizajn prednjih zakrilaca promenjen jer je prvi bio toliko agresivan da je dolazilo do pucanja i zaglavljivanja u gornjem polozaju.
Kasnije dolazi do dodavanja tezine sa novom opremom, senzorima, oruzjem, ali to je normalan razvoj i drugih aviona.
Fighting Saints presli sa F-5 na F-16
VFC-13 Fighting Saints transition to F-16 Citat:Fleet Composite Squadron (VFC) 13 Fighting Saints ('AF-xx') at Naval Air Station Fallon (NV) is in the process of fully transitioning from the F-5N Tiger II to the F-16C Block 32 Fighting Falcon.
https://scramble.nl/military-news/vfc-13-fighting-saints-transition-to-f-16
