Ok, most of you know I would not waste two minutes on the US Air Force, let alone the time required to find the answer to the following question. Since I have all the resources of Air Warriors members at my finger tips I'll ask you guys.
I am holding short in my shiney MD80 at Tucson Intl yesterday when the AZ ANG roars into the break and lands before my eyes. In the four ship are the ondirnary F-16s with the AZ ANG logo on the tail. There are also a couple odd aircraft. They looked like F-16s but very different. To begin with, it looked like Kuwaiti flags on the tail (the AZ ANG does lots of foreign mil training) and it looked much more beefy. Kind of a squarish aft fuselage and large ventral box forward of the vertical stab. I'm thinking maybe overwing conformal fuel tanks and who knows what else. What version of F-16 did I see? What is its capabilities? Is it ours or theirs? (easy on the capabilites if it is ours, opsec don't ya know) Guy I was flying with had lots of F-16 time years ago and didn't recognize it.
Standing by...
I am holding short in my shiney MD80 at Tucson Intl yesterday when the AZ ANG roars into the break and lands before my eyes. In the four ship are the ondirnary F-16s with the AZ ANG logo on the tail. There are also a couple odd aircraft. They looked like F-16s but very different. To begin with, it looked like Kuwaiti flags on the tail (the AZ ANG does lots of foreign mil training) and it looked much more beefy. Kind of a squarish aft fuselage and large ventral box forward of the vertical stab. I'm thinking maybe overwing conformal fuel tanks and who knows what else. What version of F-16 did I see? What is its capabilities? Is it ours or theirs? (easy on the capabilites if it is ours, opsec don't ya know) Guy I was flying with had lots of F-16 time years ago and didn't recognize it.
Standing by...