The Aircraft Replacing The F-16 Falcon

Since the late 1970s, General Dynamics’ (later Lockheed Martin’s) F-16 Fighting Falcon has been a workhorse light fighter for the United States and many allies. Its fundamental design and systems are from a time when all-digital cockpits, networked data links, and stealth technology were all things of science fiction. By the end of the 1990s, engineers had crammed nearly every upgrade possible into the airframe.