General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon - U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds

Took these photos of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbids precision flight squadron using General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons at the Tampa MacDill AirFest 2014 at the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa Florida U.S.A.

 

Armament

• Guns: 1× 20 mm (0.787 in) M61 Vulcan 6-barrel Gatling cannon, 511 rounds General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon.

• Hardpoints: 2× wing-tip Air-to-air missile launch rails, 6×

under-wing, and 3× under-fuselage pylon (2 of 3 for sensors)

stations with a capacity of up to 17,000 lb (7,700 kg) of stores

• Rockets:

• 4×LAU-61/LAU-68 rocket pods (each with 19× /7× Hydra 70 mm rockets, respectively)

• 4×LAU-5003 rocket pods (each with 19× CRV7 70 mm rockets)

• 4×LAU-10 rocket pods (each with 4× Zuni 127 mm rockets)

• Missiles:

• Air-to-air missiles:

• 2× AIM-7 Sparrow

• 6× AIM-9 Sidewinder

• 6× AIM-120 AMRAAM

• 6× IRIS-T

• 6× Python-4

• Air-to-ground missiles:

• 6× AGM-65 Maverick

• 4× AGM-88 HARM

• AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM)

• Anti-ship missiles:

• 2× AGM-84 Harpoon

• 4× AGM-119 Penguin

• Bombs:

• 8× CBU-87 Combined Effects Munition

• 8× CBU-89 Gator mine

• 8× CBU-97 Sensor Fuzed Weapon

• 4× Mark 84 general-purpose bombs

• 8× Mark 83 GP bombs

• 12× Mark 82 GP bombs

• 8× GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb (SDB)

• 4× GBU-10 Paveway II

• 6× GBU-12 Paveway II

• 4× GBU-24 Paveway III

• 4× GBU-27 Paveway III

• 4× Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) series

• 4× AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW)

• Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser (WCMD)

• B61 nuclear bomb

• Others:

• SUU-42A/A Flares/Infrared decoys dispenser pod and chaff pod or

• AN/ALQ-131 & AN/ALQ-184 ECM pods or

• LANTIRN, Lockheed Martin Sniper XR & LITENING targeting pods or

• up to 3× 300/330/370/600 US gallon Sargent Fletcher drop tanks for ferry flight/extended range/loitering time

or

• UTC Aerospace DB-110 long range EO/IR sensor pod on centerline

 

Avionics

• AN/APG-68 radar

• MIL-STD-1553 bus

 

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