The F – 16 fighting Falcon is a fourth generation single engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft is manufactured by Lockheed Martin.
The length of F-16 is 15.06 m and wingspan of an F-16 is 9.96 m. The height of F-16 is 4.88 m and the range of F-16 is 4.220 Km. The maximum speed of F-16 is 2414 kilometres per hour. The service of ceiling of F-16 is 50,000 ft and the rate of climb of F-16 is 15,240 meters/m. The empty weight of F-16 is 9.2 ton. Maximum take-off weight of F-16 is 22.7 ton. Internal fuel of F-16 is 3.1 ton and external fuel of F-16 is 1.38 ton.
In F-16 AIM – 9 sidewinder short range air to air missiles and AIM – 120 AMRAAM medium range air to air missiles. It contains penguin anti – ship missiles, runway denial bombs, cluster bombs, GPS – guided bombs and conventional drop bombs including nuclear bombs, AGM 65 maverick air to ground missiles, internal 20 mm M61A1 vulcan cannon.
The F-16 fighter is a single engine aircraft for the United States Air Force, designed as an air day fighter. F-16 jet fighter was built under an unusual agreement creating a consortium between the United States and four NATO countries. The F-16 is capabilities in many ways leave much to be desired. The F-16 to impart considerably more energy onto missiles it fires than its French counterparts.
F-16 can fly to enter air combat, stay there and fight and then return, it can locate and target in all weather conditions. The design of the F-16 is advanced aerospace science and reliable system that combined to simplify the airplane and reduce its size, the pilot vision both forward and upward to use of cockpit and its bubble canopy.