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.

Still, for now, these states clearly recognize that the F-16 still has a role to play and that these new, modern variants ...

An F-16 fighter jet crashed near Spangdahlem Air Base, the US Air Force installation in Germany's Eifel region, on September 22, 2026, injuring its pilot. A spokesperson for the base told the New York ...

The U.S. Air Force will hold a two-day industry day October 20-21 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to brief companies on a ...

Lt. Gen. David Tabor also confirmed reporting that the Air Force is considering a new build F-16, but said that decision wasn't "urgent." ...

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.

The pilot who ejected sustained minor injuries; the $33.4 million fighter jet was destroyed on impact.

The jet was part of a four-aircraft training exercise.

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The Air Force will consider acquiring new F-16 Fighting Falcon jets to help fill capacity shortfalls in its aging fighter fleet, multiple people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces ...

In early December, USAF F-35A Lightning IIs and F-16 Fighting Falcons took part in agile airpower exercises across the Baltic states and in Romania. Two F-16s from the U.S. Air Force’s 31st Fighter ...

A U.S. F-16 fighter jet has crashed during a training drill in Michigan, after the Pentagon said it wanted to see more military flyovers. The F-16 belonged to the Texas Military Department and was ...