F-16 Fighting Falcon - A Paper Airplane Can Be Your Collection

Have you ever wonder which fighter planes areIn the first week of June 2008, more than 100
mostly used in war against Iraq?Israeli F-16s and F-15s were engaged in
In "Desert Storm' operation as well as the recentmaneuvers over the eastern Mediterranean and
Iraq attack, many F-16s were used so much thatGreece. The aircraft reportedly flew more than
it is called the 'workhorse of the US Air Force"900 mi (1,450 km), roughly the distance from
Prototyped in 1965 as the YF-16, the F-16 FightingIsrael to Iran's Natanz nuclear enrichment facility,
Falcon is an American multirole jet fighter aircraftand the exercise included refueling tankers and
originally developed by General Dynamics for thehelicopters capable of rescuing downed pilots.
United States Air Force. A lightweight fighter, itRussia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov cautioned
evolved into a successful multirole aircraft,Israel against using military force against Iran.
successful on the export market and serving 24Dogfighting armament includes AIM-7 Sparrow,
countries. It is nicknamed the "Viper", after theAIM-9 Sidewinder, IRIS-T, AIM-120 AMRAAM
Battlestar Galactica starfighter.anti-air missiles, as well as the staple M61 Vulcan
F-16 models are denoted by sequential blockgatling gun. Ground strikes are carried out with
numbers to denote significant upgrades. Thepayloads including AGM-65 Mavericks,
blocks cover both single- and two-seat versions.Paveway-series laser-guided bombs and the B61
A variety of software, hardware, systems,nuclear bomb.
weapons carriage, and structural enhancementsThe only real F-16s that I have seen are during air
have been instituted over the years to graduallyshows where pilots do acrobatic maneuvers and
upgrade the F-16 and retroactively implement themy son will scream with flight as the combined
upgrades in previously delivered aircraft.decibels of the F-16s reached deafening levels.
F-16 have been widely used throughout the pastWith pictures I took from this air displays (I must
few decades and are still used extensively today.add it is difficult to capture these photos), I will sit
On 7 June 1981, eight Israeli F-16s, escorted bydown and toy with some papers to make an F-16
F-15s, executed Operation Opera, their firstpaper airplane. Some look mediocre while others
employment in a significant air-to-ground operation.look quite real.
This raid severely damaged Osiraq, an IraqiIn fact, recently, my neighbour, John and I sat
nuclear reactor under construction near Baghdad,down and experiment to make the F-16 and it
to prevent the regime of Saddam Hussein fromturns out to be another of our origami creations. I
using the reactor for the creation of nuclearproudly display this new creation right on top of
weapons.my computer.