You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. In a future war where battlefield systems are contested, pilots could find themselves flying and fighting without consistent communications with commanders. The Air Force just ...

As the Air Force has aggressively retired older aircraft to cut costs, it is facing a growing capability gap. One possible solution is a new tranche of F-16s. The United States Air Force received its final new F-16 Fighting Falcon on March 18, 2005.

U.S. Air Force maintainers carefully stripped every usable part off of a damaged aircraft to help keep the Fighting Falcon flock in the air