Development

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• Development
• Background
• Flyoff
• Further development
• Design
• Overview
• Cockpit and ergonomics
• Negative static stability
• Fly-by-wire
• Wing and strake configuration
• Costs
• Operational history
• First combat successes: Bekaa Valley and Osiraq raid (1981)
• Operation Peace for Galilee (1982)
• Incidents during the Soviet-Afghan War (1986-1988)
• Operation Desert Storm (1991)
• Interwar Air Operations over Iraq (1991-2003)
• Venezuelan coup attempt (1992)
• Balkans (1994-1995 & 1999)
• Aegean incidents (1996 & 2006)
• Kargil War (1999)
• Operations in Afghanistan (2001-date)
• Invasion of Iraq & post-war operations (2003-date)
• Second Lebanon War (2006)
• Variants
• Main production variants
• Other variants
• Operators
• Current sales proposals
• Incidents
• Specifications (F-16C Block 30)
• Popular culture
• Notes
• Bibliography