An F-16 Fighting Falcon jettisoned two external fuel tanks Thursday during an in-flight emergency over the Yellow Sea, according to the 8th Fighter Wing.
Two international customers so far have signed on to buy Northrop’s Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite, and the company hopes more could be in the works.
When General Dynamics began developing what would become the F-16 Fighting Falcon in the 1970s, it was expected that the aircraft might have to take on the best the Soviet Union had to offer. Now, more than 50 years after the aircraft took its first flight, it could soon be engaging with the Russia's aircraft in the skies over Ukraine.