F-16 Fighting Falcon er et amerikansk 1-motors jagerfly oprindelig udviklet af General Dynamics, men senere i 1993 overtaget af Lockheed. Der findes både 1- og 2-sædede versioner, og F-16 danner grundstammen i Det danske Flyvevåben. F-16 blev indført i 1980, og i 2005 til januar 2026 var alle F-16 samlet under Fighter Wing Skrydstrup.Thomas Kristensen er en af Danmarks mest erfarne jagerpiloter. I "F-16" har han samlet mere end 50 fortællinger fra danske piloters oplevelser med F-16...

Na een kwarteeuw inzet boven de brandhaarden van de wereld valt in ons land het doek voor de F-16. Nederlandse jachtvliegers kregen de afgelopen jaren te maken met alsmaar heftiger missies. In Bosnië en Kosovo werd het voor het eerst menens. Daarna kwam het boven Afghanistan, Irak en Syrië duizenden keren tot inzet van zware wapens.Voor het eerst spreken leden van de gesloten vliegergemeenschap over de moeilijke afwegingen die ze in fracties van seconden moeten maken. Hoe is het om ...

Na een kwarteeuw inzet boven de brandhaarden van de wereld valt in ons land het doek voor de F-16. Nederlandse jachtvliegers kregen de afgelopen jaren te maken met alsmaar heftiger missies. In Bosnië en Kosovo werd het voor het eerst menens. Daarna kwam het boven Afghanistan, Irak en Syrië duizenden keren tot inzet van zware wapens.Voor het eerst spreken leden van de gesloten vliegergemeenschap over de moeilijke afwegingen die ze in fracties van seconden moeten maken. Hoe is het om ...

Achetés au milieu des années 1970, les 160 F-16 belges ont été intensivement utilisés, notamment dans les Balkans, en Afghanistan, ou plus récemment en Libye et en Irak. Facilement déployables, l’engagement de chasseursbombardiers s’avère également moins risqué que l’emploi des forces terrestres dans les conflits actuels et a joué un rôle de premier plan dans les opérations militaires belges de ces vingt dernières années. Les 54 derniers F-16 belges en activité se rapprochant de leur fin d...

Im Grundgesetz wird uns Gewissensfreiheit garantiert. Aber wo sitzt das Gewissen und in wie weit sollte man auf es hören? Warum ist das Gewissen politisch? Und wie sieht Gewissensfreiheit aus, wenn die Grenzen verschwimmen oder Gefühle auf die Realität treffen? Solche und andere Fragen stellen sich die 40 Autor*innen in dieser Anthologie zur Gewissensfreiheit. Ihre Gedanken, Gefühle und Erlebnisse zum Thema stellen sie in vielfältigen literarischen Formen dar - Gedicht, Kurzgeschichte, Ess...

It was more than 50 years ago when the U.S. Air Force put in a request. It wanted a lighter fighter jet. Soon the F-16 Falcon was born. And it is still going strong today. The plane known by pilots as the “Viper” is being used around the world by friends of America. Part of the America’s Fighter Jets series: the F-16 Fighting Falcon places readers in the cockpit. It teaches them all about this incredible aircraft. and why it has been a mainstay in the U.S. arsenal for a half-century.

This book starts with an overlap of the period from 1963 to 1975, described in final chapters of the “Inside History of the USAF Lightweight Fighters, 1900 to 1975”. The next major portion of this book then describes the Transition Contract to “missionize” the General Dynamics YF-16 and Northrop YF-17 designs into a USAF Air Combat Fighter (ACF) and also to “navalize” both ACF designs for potential procurement as the USN Air Combat Fighter (NACF). The latter portion of this book describes ...

Considered the most capable multi-role fighter, the F-16 Fighting Falcon can weather any storm. The streamlined aircraft will fly more than 500 miles to meet the enemy, locate targets under low visibility, and withstand nine times the force of gravity. Discover how Air Force pilots can take on any mission in the F-16 Fighting Falcon.

Hand-picked, pressure-tested, and full of astronaut gung ho, the young pilots of Eye of the Viper are poised for the toughest assignment of their career: the exhaustive six-month training course at Arizona's Luke Air Force Base, at a cost of $2 million each. Luke, the world's largest fighter wing, is the only F-16 fighter training base in the United States, and each year it produces one thousand pilots who will fly the F-16 from Korea to Afghanistan to Iraq.But bei...

Okuyacağınız bu eser, hayatımın dönüm noktası olan 15 Temmuz 2016 tarihinden önce mesleğinde başarılı bir F-16 pilotu ve 22 yıl gururla üniforma taşımış bir subay iken ve üniformasını taşıdığı sürece ülkesine ve milletine, ailesinden dahi tereddütsüz fedakârlık göstererek hizmet etmiş ve bununla şerefyap olmuş olan şahsımın, kendisine ve ailesine hayat hakkı tanınmayan ülkesinde zulüm altında ezilen bir mağdura dönüştürülmesi ve buna karşılık ailesi ile birlikte verdiği yaşam mücadelesinin...

The pilot of the F-16 Viper, which is the U.S. Air Force’s frontline fighter and attack aircraft, is at the pinnacle of combat aviation. Viper Force tells the story of what it takes to become an F-16 pilot and what it’s like to fly and fight the Viper in combat. Because the F-16 is a dual-purpose combat aircraft, its pilot must master two widely divergent disciplines: air-to-air flying against enemy fighters to maintain control of the air over the battle field and air-to-ground fl...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The definitive history of combat aviation and fighter aircraft, from World War I to presentINCLUDES 32 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND 12 MAPSLords of the Sky is the “dramatic, fast-paced, and definitive" (Michael Korda) aviation history of fighter pilots and aircraft and their extraordinary influence on modern warfare, masterfully written by "one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history” (New York Post). A twenty-year USAF veteran ...