General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon - The MIG 29 Killer

The Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon is a multirole jet fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force. Designed as a lightweight fighter, it evolved into a successful multirole aircraft. The Falcon's versatility is a paramount reason it has proven a success on the export market, having been selected to serve in the air forces of 25 nations. The F-16 is the largest Western fighter program with over 4400 aircraft built since production started in 1976.

The F-16 was designed to be a cost-effective combat "workhorse" that can perform various kinds of missions and maintain around-the-clock readiness. It is much smaller and lighter than its predecessors, but uses advanced aerodynamics and avionics, including the first use of a relaxed static stability/fly-by-wire (RSS/FBW) flight control system, to achieve enhanced maneuver performance. Highly nimble, the F-16 can pull 9-g maneuvers and can reach a maximum speed of over Mach 2.

The F-16s first air-to-air combat success was achieved by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) over the Bekaa Valley on 28 April 1981 against a Syrian Mil Mi-8 helicopter, which was downed with cannon fire following an unsuccessful attempt with an AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile (AAM). A year later, on 9 June 1982, during the initial air battle of the 1982 Lebanon War, the IAF achieved the first F-16 "kill" of another fighter with a successful AAM shoot-down of a Syrian MiG-21.
The following year, during Operation Peace for Galilee (Lebanon War) Israeli F-16s engaged Syrian aircraft in one of the largest air battles involving jet aircraft, which began on 9 June and continued for two more days. At the end of the conflict, the Israeli Air Force credited their F-16s with 44 air-to-air kills, mostly of MiG-21s and MiG-23s, and claim to have suffered no air-to-air losses of their own.

During the Soviet-Afghan war, Pakistan Air Force F-16s shot down around ten Afghan and Soviet ground attack and transport aircraft operating in Pakistani airspace between May 1986 and December 1988.

In Operation Desert Storm of 1991, 249 USAF F-16s flew 13,340 sorties in strikes against Iraq, the most of any Coalition aircraft.

On 27 November 1992, two Venezuelan F-16s took part in the November Venezuelan Coup Attempt on the side of the government. In particular, the two F-16As strafed targets on the ground and shot down two OV-10 Broncos with AIM-9Ps and one AT-27 Tucano with cannon fire as these rebel-flown aircraft attacked loyalist army positions.

Two air-to-air victories were scored by USAF F-16s in Operation Southern Watch. On 27 December 1992, a USAF F-16D shot down an Iraqi MiG-25 in UN-restricted airspace over southern Iraq with an AIM-120 AMRAAM; this was the first USAF F-16 kill since the F-16 was introduced; and was also the first AMRAAM kill. On 17 January 1993, a USAF F-16C destroyed an Iraqi MiG-23 with an AMRAAM missile for the second USAF F-16 victory.

NATO F-16s participated in air strikes against Serbian forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina during Operation Deliberate Force in August-September 1995, and again in Operation Allied Force over Yugoslavia from March-June 1999. During Allied Force, F-16s also achieved one or two aerial victories: one by a Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16AM, which shot down a Yugoslavian MiG-29 with an AMRAAM, and possibly another by a USAF F-16C which fired two AMRAAMs at a Yugoslavian MiG-29.

On June 7, 2006, two USAF F-16s dropped two 500 lb (230 kg) guided bombs (one GBU-12 Paveway LGB and one GBU-38 GPS-guided smart bomb) destroying an al-Qaeda safehouse, killing Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

On 25 February 2009, a USAF F-16 shot down an Iranian Ababil-3 UAV that had violated Iraqi airspace.

The F-16 is scheduled to remain in service with the U.S. Air Force until 2025.

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[YURISAMARA]

CLUMSY EXPENSIVE COFFIN !!!

ha ha ha ha!!!!

(  Bay-bay from RUSSIA! )

[simeon5541]

Shoot down Serbian MiGs!?!?!?20 NATO jets on our one !

Back in 1999. Serbian sky was full of NATO planes,

one of that two didn't make it to take of,

radars and electronics were malfunctioned on all our MiGs,because of bad financial situation in our country.

other one had make it to take off but he saved himself in the last moment

because there was about 15 NATO planes on his tail,

he ejected,sadly that pilot died 2 years ago in car accident.

I they are so good why not challenge Russian pilots ?

[NWA90s]

@Elfulcrum777 lol keep dreaming. f16 has kills on mig29 and mig29 doesnt have kills on f16

[canamwing]

F-16 is shit compared to a Mig-29!

[simeon5541]

@BVargas78

Our MiGs dont posses long range rockets also,

and as you said we were outnumbered.

[BVargas78]

@simeon5541 I think if the serbians had F16's and Nato used Mig29 we'd get the same kind of result. I think the difference here is not so much that the F16 is greatly superior, but that Nato (and US) airforce is more numerous, better trained and better maintained. That's the reason why F16 has fared better than Mig29's in the history of operations. If India and Pakistan went to war we'd probably see things be much more on a par.

Still, F16 is a great plane, stood the test of time.

[Change6609]

The F-16 has set an example for other - much later- aircraft designs. Such as for the French Rafale. The F-16 at the time of its first production was way ahead of all other jetfighter developments in the world.

Regarding Russian designs: all Russian and Chinese aircraft are for at least 75% stolen copies of existing western (mainly american) aircraft....

[JVC7400]

@EskimkoSRB It was just the way you replied, and because this movie is called "General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon - The MIG 29 Killer". you made it sound the other way around. nothing else.

[EskimkoSRB]

@JVC7400 Yes it was shot down by SAM,but where do u see mig 29 in this video?

[VitoAndoliniCarlayun]

@JVC7400 see my F-15 eagle video and read the information they also downed 35 Iraqi fixed wing air craft during the Gulf War