Combat Hammer
Building A New Database
For F-16 Capability
Article And Photos By Eric Hehs

A dozen US Air Force maintainers and pilots gather around a television monitor in a briefing room at Hill AFB, Utah. On the screen, a remote-controlled tank trundles down a gravel road pulling an armored personnel carrier with a 200-foot tether.

Veni Vidi Falcon
Article And Photos By Eric Stijger

The Aeronautica Militare Italiana is trading in one Lockheed Martin fighter for another as it retires its last F-104 Starfighters and begins operating F-16 Fighting Falcons. The transition began in earnest for the Italian Air Force in March 2001 when the government of Italy leased thirty-four F-16s-thirty single-seat Block 15 F-16s and four Block 10 two-seat trainers-from the US Air Force inventory.

Block 60 Arrives In UAE
Desert Falcons Find Their New Home

Article And Photos By Eric Hehs

The first ten Block 60 F-16s arrived in the United Arab Emirates in grand style on 3 May to a waiting crowd of government leaders, military officers, and distinguished guests.