Evolution of F-16 Fighting Falcon (F-16A Block 1 to F-16V Block 72)

The US F-16 models are denoted by increasing block numbers to denote upgrades. The blocks cover both single- and two-seat versions. While many F-16s were produced according to these block designs, there have been many other variants with significant changes, usually because of modification programs. More than 4,000 F-16s have been or will be produced for more than 24 nations worldwide. This video presents the evolution of F-16 Fighting Falcon.
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[loose-arrow-garage]

I had the pleasure of working on most of these variants form blocks 10 to block 60 as a Crew Chief/phase technician in my career with the Air national Guard and later as a Lockheed Martin employee. A total of 33 years. The F-16 will be around for many more!

[MrRight-fjyi]

My dad worked on the F-16 at General Dynamics in Ft. Worth. He took me to the roll out of the first one in 1973. One of the best designed planes ever!

[dougball]

I worked at GD fresh out of grad school in '75-'77. For the rollout ceremony of the first pre-production airplane, the YF was flying the Paris Air Show flight demo nearly over our heads at Carswell AFB. I still have my two molded models of the YFs - one in the red/white/blue paint scheme and the other in the sky/cloud camo coloring. Thanks for bringing me up to speed on all the subsequent variants.

[Blooppenheimer]

In 1992, when I was 18, I had my first engineering student internship at the F16 factory in TAI, Turkiye. It seemed like a dream. They were good days...

[johnwatson]

Sometime in the early 2000’s was given a tour of the Fort Worth F-16 production line – they had a mockup of what I think said was the Block 50 intended for sale to Israel – we went outside next to the runway and watched an incredible practice F-16 maneuver demonstration, our own private airshow.

[mr.normalguy]

Couldn't find better video explaining the evolution of F-16, well made video 👍

[drianmortiz]

Such a wonderful and well informative video about the evolution of the F-16 combat aircraft, thank you for sharing host 👍👍

[EvMstein]

Whoa... your video is surprisingly informative, probably the best on YouTube right now!

[pablopeter]

EXCELLENT explanation of the F-16 evolution. Thanks very much and congratulations.

[Zoegaglia]

Greece is upgrading 83 f-16s from block 52+ to block 70/72, 4 aircrafts have been upgraded so far and we are waiting another one to come in a few weeks.

[tornadosimon]

One of the best fighter aircraft ever made, thank you :) !!!

[YouTube_user]

Dorsal spine, conformal side pods and many other add ons, it hardly looks like the original. The F16XL would have had the room for all of that internally. Such a shame they never went into production.

[hugocheng]

It’s good to see Taiwan sign a new arm deal with US but I think 66 amounts is just too rare

[FusionMonkey]

Like the use of Hobby Master models in the graphics.

[tasossaggiotis]

Greece is upgrading their F16 to Vipers and the first 2 have been delivered to the Hellenic Air Force

[hey]

The block 70/72 is already in service. Greece has a few already.

[Conan-nyum]

The F-16 viper with a elite pilot can defeat 99% of all adversaries!

[GuardianAssassin]

I worked on 2 of those ones you've put in the video. Super cool.

[juanccalzadadeanda]

I’ve been wanting this video for a long time now, years like.

[kzmaven]

The cool name for one sharp, gorgeous, fighting aircraft.