President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Captain Pavlo Ivanov, aged 26, died on Apr. 12, 2025, during a combat mission flying an F-16 Fighting Falcon. In a statement on X/Twitter, President ...

A Ukrainian pilot flying an F-16 Viper jet was killed during a combat mission on Saturday, Ukraine's Air Force wrote on Telegram. The military said in a statement that an investigation had been ...

It’s one thing to have computer intelligence beat people in a video game dogfight. It is another to see it execute a vertical climb at supersonic velocity, within close proximity of 2,000 feet of a ...

Photo: USAF/Samuel King Jr. Exactly one year ago the U.S. Air Force (USAF) announced the birth of something called the Viper Experimentation and Next-gen Operations Model – Autonomy Flying Testbed ...

As part of this year’s Combat Archer iteration, the Air Force will integrate the AGR-20 FALCO laser-guided rocket, which is designed to counter unmanned aerial systems. 21 F-16 fighter jets from one ...

After 42 years, the 56th Fighter Wing completed its final U.S. local training sortie with the F-16 and will now focus only on F-35 training. The U.S. Air Force’s 56th Fighter Wing has completed its ...