Citat:A US Air Force pilot in an F-16 Fighting Falcon assigned to the 18th Aggressor Squadron at Eielson AFB, Alaska, takes off en route to Anderson Air Force Base in Guam to support exercise Cope North 2014 on 10 February 2014. Cope North is an annual air combat tactics, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise designed to increase the readiness and interoperability of the US, Japanese, and Australian air and naval forces.
Photo by SrA Shawn Nickel
U.S. official says cancellation of CAPES will not affect Taiwan’s F-16A/B upgrade program
Citat:Testifying before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, the deputy assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific, Kin Moy, told lawmakers that the cancellation of the U.S. Air Force’s Combat Avionics Programmed Extension Suite (CAPES) program will not affect Taiwan’s upgrading of its F-16A/B fleet.
Moy said funding for the upgrade can be covered in Taiwan’s current letter of offer and acceptance.
Citat:On the 6th of March 2014 the J-015, also known as the "Orange Lion," departed from Volkel airbase to Portugal.
Like any other F-16 within the Royal Netherlands Airforce periodically it gets an anti-corrosion treatment and is painted again.
Having flown in the orange color scheme with three of the F-16 demo teams for five years the J-015 will be painted in its operational gray color.From an operational point of view, it was decided to apply the gray color so that this unit is available for operational missions.
Because of the reductions within our defense department and the decreasing number of F-16s this seasons F-16 demo team stationed at Leeuwarden airbase will therefore be flying demonstrations in a 'normal' gray F-16.
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Citat:Lockheed Martin was give a $6.9 million contract on Mar. 18 to install 20 advanced countermeasure electronics system-system integrity (ACES SI) retrofit kits, modify 24 radar warning receivers and procure three electronic warfare memory loader verifiers for Egypt’s 20 F-16C/D Block 52 aircraft.
Israel suspends training flights after F-16I mishap Citat:The Israeli air force halted training flights for a day after a Lockheed Martin F-16I pilot suffered a bout of vertigo or spatial disorientation on 25 March.
The incident occurred during a sortie from Hazerim air base, while the two-seat combat aircraft was over the Mediterranean. After the pilot lost control, the weapons system operator took over and landed the aircraft safely.
