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F-16 jet crashes near Holloman Air Force Base
A pilot was able to successfully eject from their F-16 jet just before it crashed late Tuesday morning near Holloman Air Force Base.
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Russia warns it will consider Ukraine's F-16 jets as nuclear threat
The Russian Foreign Ministry has stated that Moscow will "consider" F-16 aircraft provided to Ukraine as nuclear-capable systems. The Ministry said that through this stance, Russia aims to issue a "sobering signal" to the West, which it accuses of pursuing an aggressive strategy to inflict "strategic defeat" on the Russian Federation. In its statement from May 6 the ministry claims, "We expect the imminent appearance of American-made multirole F-16 fighter jets in the Ukrainian theatre of...
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Air Force launches an AI-controlled F-16 fighter jet. A whole fleet is next
With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched with a familiar roar that is a hallmark of U.S. airpower. But the aerial combat that followed was unlike any other: This F-16 was controlled by artificial intelligence, not a human pilot. And riding in the front seat was Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall. AI marks one of the biggest advances in military aviation since the introduction of stealth in the early 1990s, and the Air Force has aggressively leaned...