#f 16

[thelittleukrainianwell-armedgirl]

Planes of hope (c) @ bright_arts

#ukraine #украина #україна #russia #россия #росія #putin #путин #путін #война #war #art #illustration #війна #арт #ілюстрація #иллюстрация #plane #aviation #fighter #f 16

[jjwphotography1990]

The amazing Thunderbirds flying in tight formation!

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The 2023 Orlando Air Show

Orlando, Florida

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#thunderbirds #thunderbird #airforcethunderbirds #airforce #usairforce #aviationphotography #airshow #airshowphotography #f16 #f16viper #f16falcon #f16fightingfalcon #aviation #aviationgeek #jet #fighterjet #shotoncanon #canon #canoneosr #eosr #canonphotography #photography #aviationphotographer #pictureoftheday #sigma #sigmalens #sigma60600mmsports #mylensrental #orlandoairshow #airdotshow

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[isidora567]

POV: ,, After watching Transformers Prime "

Thanks to Transformers Prime and Starscream I fell in love with fighter jet F-16 and would like to drive it. Am I the only one or someone else wants this?

#tfp #transformers #transformers prime #starscream #tfp starscream #transformers memes #meme #f 16

[dark0ta]

F-16C Fighting Falcon Taken: 07/16/23

#original photography #photographers on tumblr #photography #color photography #canon eos 2000d #canon t7 #Duluth Airshow #duluth #minnesota #airshow #f 16 #f 16c #f 16 fighter jets #fighting falcon #general dynamics #f16 #falcon #airplane #aircraft #aviation #military #jet #DKTAfavorite

[ghostwarriorrrr]

#military #aircraft #air force #us air force #usaf #kc 10 extender #f 16 fighting falcon #f 16 #fighter jet #tanker aircraft #tanker #aerial refueling plane

[2inx4inx8inbrick]

c32a 99-0004

c17 Spirit of the City of Fairborn 70044

and two f-16s from the 180th fighter wing of the the Ohio Air National Guard doing touch-and-go's at Wright Patterson Air Force Base Dayton Ohio

taken 27/12/23

#aircraft #aviation #daytonohio #ohio #air force #military #planes #c 17 #f 16 #c 32 #air national guard

[believeintrigger]

USAF F-16C of the 480th Fighter Squadron flies alongside two Luftwaffe PA-2000 Tornado of the Tactical Air Wing 33, Germany, 12 May 2023.

#fighter jet #fighter aircraft #f 16 #f 16 fighting falcon #panavia tornado #pa 2000 tornado #luftwaffe #usaaf

[jubojan]

(Inspired by Top Gun) Bam Tinka “Pink”

#art #artists on tumblr #fanart #fan art #pokémon #pokemon #pokemon fanart #pokemon oc #pokesona #tinkaton #Bam the Tinkaton #fighter jet #fighter pilot #air force #airforce #f 16 #f 16 fighting falcon #Top Gun

[samcat2]

lil' feller I drew today

#f 16 #f 16 fighting falcon #jets #military #plane #artists on tumblr

[jjwphotography1990]

The F-16 literally ripping the fabric of space! I love the distortion in this shot. Happy 50th birthday to the mighty F-16!

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The 2021 Stuart Air Show

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#vapor #vaportrail #f16 #f16viper #f16fightingfalcon #jet #fighterjet #aviationphotography #airforce #airforceaviation #airshow #airshowphotography #aviation #aviationgeek #airplane #military #shotoncanon #canon #canoneosr #eosr #canonphotography #photography #aviationphoto #pictureoftheday #photooftheday #sigma #sigmalens #sigma60600mmsports #mylensrental #stuartairshow

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[theculturedmarxist]

A few days ago U.S. President Joe Biden announced the training of Ukrainian pilots for the F-16 multirole fighter aircraft:

President Joe Biden told G7 leaders on Friday that the US would join in efforts to train Ukraine’s pilots on fourth generation fighter jets including the F-16s, a senior administration official told CNN on Friday.

This has obviously been in the planning for some time. The timing of the announcement at the G7 summit was simply chosen to maximize the propaganda value for Biden.

The process we have seen has repeated itself again and again. As pro-Ukrainian blogger (with no military knowledge) describes it:

This has clearly become a proxy war between Russia and NATO, supercharging the political considerations inherent to any war. Ukraine’s goal is to wheedle as much military aid as humanly possibly out of NATO, especially the United States. The United States’ goal is more complex: give enough aid to push Russia back, but not so much that its proxy war with Russia escalates into an actual one.

This dynamic has created a Hunger Games scenario where Ukraine is constantly playing to the cameras to cajole extra gifts from the wealthy sponsors who watch its every move over the internet in real time. I had decided against using this analogy until I saw Ukrainians themselves using it. There is something grotesque and sobering about finding yourself in this position, and writing about it. But it is what it is.

I had assumed that F-16 training had in fact already started several weeks back. The EU blabber mouth Josep Borrell now all but confirmed it:

The European Union’s foreign policy chief said on Tuesday that the US green light to allow Ukrainian pilots to get training to fly F-16s has created an inexorable momentum that will inevitably bring the fighter jets to the Ukrainian battlefield. … Borrell added that training for Ukrainian pilots had already begun in Poland and some other countries, though authorities in Warsaw could not immediately confirm the news. The Netherlands and Denmark, among others, are also making plans for such training.

No decision on actually delivering fourth-generation fighter jets has been taken yet, but training pilots now – a process that takes several months – will help speed up battle readiness once a formal decision is made.

The process will be much faster than many assume.

The jets the Ukraine will get have already been selected and will go through ready maintenance. The Ukrainian pilots, who already have some experience on other fighter jets, will get just a short introduction course - six to eight weeks or even less. They do not need to train air to air fights because the F-16 would lose any such fight against the newer and better armed Russian jets. They just need to learn the basics, starting, landing, going up to a certain height and launch point, release whatever long range weapon will be on board. Anything else would be suicide.

The big question is where to start and land from. The F-16 has a relative short combat range of some 500 kilometer and there will be no air to air tankers. There ain't that many airfield that are suitable for the fighter jet's missions.

Someone who seems competent explains the problem (edited):

The Ukrainian Air Force, to my knowledge, has had to use guerilla airfield tactics to keep the Russians guessing as to where they are operating from. This is to prevent Moscow from targeting the aircraft/impromptu airfield from drone attacks and air strikes, destroying stationary aircraft or the rendering the “runway” unusable. Soviet-built aircraft are sublimely suited to this.

For ex, the MiG-29 “Fulcrum” uses automatic Foreign Object Debris (FOD) covers that close for initial start up (vid). Meanwhile louvres located at the top of the wing-root open to provide alternate air intake to the jet engines. Upon take off, once the weight on wheels (WoW) switch in the nose gear detects it is off the ground, the louvers cycle closed and the FOD covers on the primary intake retract, allowing max airflow to the engines once the danger of FOD damage has passed. This ingenious design allows the Fulcrum to operate, not only from unimproved runways or even highways, but even from grass fields. The wing itself and the distance to the ground preventing small stones and debris from getting sucked into the delicate engines.

I cannot stress how dangerous and debilitating FOD is to aircraft. A single rock, bolt, nut, or minor road debris can have a cataclysmic effect on a modern high-performance jet engine. It may not even happen immediately, the damage could happen on take off, then progressively get worse during flight as the blades, now potentially bent or unbalanced begin to self-destruct the engine internals. Even if a MiG-29 happens to shell out an engine because of the careless placement of a bolt or tool by a mechanic or the ingestion of a bird during flight or take off, the MiG HAS TWO ENGINES which are isolated in separate bays, preventing the destruction of one engine from FOD-ing out the second.

The F-16, by contrast, is definitely not suited for this style of airfield. The bottom of the intake lip sits approximately 30” from the ground with no provision of alternate intake. In addition, all the suction flow of that air comes from the sides, fore, and ground since no air can be ingested from above the engine (that’s where the fuselage is). With no provision for FOD protection or alternate, high-mounted intakes during the entire time spent on the ground, this calls for rigid and inflexible FOD control measures from the location of engine start, to taxiing routes to the runway.

In the USAF, this meant hundreds of maintainers walking at arms-length intervals two to three times a day with eyes on the ground looking for any and every piece of debris that could be ingested by the multi-million dollar vacuum cleaner with only ONE engine we were charged with maintaining. In addition, an almost constant procession of street-cleaners rumbled up and down the flightline, taxiways and runway. Everything had to be spotless lest we risk the aircraft, or worse, the pilots.

Imagine the preparation it would take to complete this process on a 10,000 foot long straight highway, in the dark, while trying to be as inconspicuous as possible so as not to draw the attention of collaborators or Russian spies. You couldn’t hop from highway to highway or run from unimproved airfields like the Ukrainian Air Force can do with MiG-29s, you’d be handcuffed or at the very least less mobile. Imagine a disused Soviet airfield that suddenly had all its weeds plucked from the cracks in the concrete, concrete patched, the runway spotless. What signal does that send? “F-16s could, will, or are operating from here.”

There are several other issues discussed in the above thread. The maintenance philosophy behind U.S. and Russian build planes is different. The Russians just change factory parts and systems, U.S. maintainer try to repair them locally:

The MiG-29 averages about 11 hrs of maintenance for every ONE hr of flight. The F-16? A whopping increase to 18.5 maintenance hrs for every one hr of flight time. These are per aircraft with experienced crews. These figures also assume decent airframe hours on the aircraft.

The Ukraine will also need a sufficient number of competent maintainers. The training for them will likely take more time than for the pilots. The author of the above suggests a solution:

Plenty of mechanics in Europe and the US are happy to lend their services to the UAF as members of the “International Legion” or the modern day iteration of the “Flying Tigers”. Myself included.

Well, good luck doing maintenance on the F-16s that will soon sit on those few available and thereby quite vulnerable Ukrainian airfields.

Russian air defenses, from the ground and from the air, can certainly suppress any F-16 flights coming near to them.

The only sensible purpose of those planes is thereby their one or two time use as a launching vehicles for long range missiles like the British Storm Shadow cruise missiles that were given to Ukraine. It is easy to train for those missions but I doubt that they will make any noticeable difference.

#moon of alabama #f 16 #ukraine conflict #f 16s to ukraine #nato #russia #ukraine

[vlad-filis]

В Пентагоне заявили, что F-16 не будут иметь отношение к текущему контрнаступлению

Ещё одно новшество в передаче Украине истребителей F-16 неожиданно «всплыло» на страницах американской прессы, и оно полностью идет вразрез с планами командования ВСУ. Оказывается, эти так долго ожидаемые самолеты нельзя будет использовать в нынешнем контрнаступлении, а ведь Залужный позиционировал их чуть не как панацею от наступающих российских войск.

«F-16 – это наше долгосрочное обязательство перед Украиной, и к текущему контрнаступлению они иметь отношения не будут», – заявил пресс-секретарь Пентагона бригадный генерал Патрик Райдер.

Это заявление во многом объясняет ту неразбериху, которая происходит с программой обучения украинских летчиков. Вслед за необходимостью прохождения языковых курсов в течение четырех месяцев возникло ещё одно условие. Оказывается, Британия сама F-16 не использует и может дать лишь универсальные основы эксплуатации западной техники. А специфику должны организовать Дания или Нидерланды на территории учебного центра в Румынии, который, правда, ещё предстоит создать.

Вот только здесь мешает ещё одна проблема – нехватка в Европе учебно-тренировочных F-16 и инструкторов. Хотя решить её могли бы американцы, выпускающие на своей базе в Аризоне по 400 летчиков для F-16. Однако американцы отказались предоставить Украине свои машины, отдав лицензию европейским союзникам. Соответственно и обучение украинских летчиков – забота европейцев.

«По словам украинского чиновника, малое количество отобранных для обучения пилотов ВСУ обусловлено нехваткой инструкторов. Однако их американские коллеги говорят, что Киев сам выдвинул лишь восьмерых пилотов», - передает The Washington Post.

В общем, странная ситуация складывается вокруг предоставлению Украине долгожданных F-16, однако не стоит слепо верить сообщениям СМИ на этот счет. Эксперты говорят, что все это может быть кампанией по дезинформации, призванной скрыть истинное положение дел у противника.

#украина #сша #f 16

[ghostwarriorrrr]

U.S. AİR FORCE & ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES

#military #aircraft #air force #us air force #usaf #israel #israel defense forces #Israeli air force #f 16 fighting falcon #f 16 #🇺🇲 #🇮🇱 #aerial refueling

[2inx4inx8inbrick]

2023 Center Point Dayton Air Show

Camera info: Nikon d5500, 70mm, f/5.6, iso 350

July 22nd 2023

#ohio #airshow #planes #daytonohio #aircraft #thunderbirds #f/a 18 #b 25 #f 16 #f 22 raptor #airliner #air force #navy

[dimalink]

Red angel

Pixel art for today. Based on videogame Baryon for system MS DOS. This is shooter top down.

So I suggest you to look at my picture. That I make based on some screenshot. It is also arcade, shooter. In grey colors. So, like space base, moon, at earth some bases. Everything is in grey colors. And your character – red plane – red angel. It is burning everything like hurricane. I get understanding, that in shooter there is required dynamic. So as for me I am with a slow mind. And when I do programming, than I also like slow. In order to see everything ok, that is going on a screen.

But for good real action there is required speed and dynamic. That’s why you control red angel, and it can shoot with rockets with both side, and each side with two rockets. So pretty deadly mechanism. So, let it be a secret who is red angel. Some mystery and atmosphere. So it is, of course, about science and technology, there is no place for mystics here. Red Angel – it is you, by the way. Secret mission let it be.

All of these, with music like good synthpop. Dynamic and atmosphere. Synthesizers. But, also, that pulse mode is like rock music. For example, like Toxxify – Cyborg Chase. So, synthpop is also point of motivation for all of these shooters. So, also take a point, that you have megabombs in the left down corner. So it will be super strike. In order to have half of screen in burning flames. So, yes, lots of flames and burns. It is very required part. Grey background and light colors of red angel and lots of bright burnings.

I think, that with such fire power as Red Angel, you have nothing to fear. This is like tv-series from 80s – air wolf. But another way. Or like Knight Rider with its super advanced car. By the way, megabombs, I get from videogame Raptor Call of Shadows! Raptor is a cool game for MS DOS! I and my bro likes to play Raptor in MS DOS system. It is pity, that there is no next games in Raptor. For example 10-20 videogames the same style of actions. Theme is flying out!

Grey pseudo realism everything is under. Like base or surface like moon. Let it be everything in a near future. So it is first. And Soviet Union will exist. This is second. So, I also remember a videogame for NES – Mig 29 Soviet Fighter. I was also very excited, because of mainly it were games about different – F16,F18,F22,F117. But I am far from this theme. But about videogames, I was impressed about how many they are!

And story will be like action future format. So I liked a lot to fly in F22 – Lighting 2. Firm MicroProse from 90s by the way makes lots of them – simulations F16-F18. And later it become a NovaLogic to makes same style of games. So I am having installed for old PC – F22 Lighting 3. But I have never played it yet. So I support idea of this kind of games. In format of shooter or simulation.

So I get in memories. About action and shooters, simulations. And I wanted to tell about my picture, and what the way I try to see my game!

#retro #retro game #indie game #pixel art #gamedev #space #arcade #action 8 bit #16 bit #ms dos #top down #moon #luna #galaxy #space shooter #mig 29 #f 22 #f 16 #raptor #call of shadows #nes #base

[believeintrigger]

An Osean F-16 somewhere above Usea, 2019.

#ace combat #ace combat 7 #f 16 #f 16 fighting falcon #fighter aircraft #fighter jet