Specifications (F-16C Block 30)
Data from USAF sheet,[71] AerospaceWeb,[72] GlobalSecurity.org[73]
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Length: 49 ft 5 modernistic (14.8 m)
- Wingspan: 32 ft 8 present-day
(9.8 m)
- Height: 16 ft (4.8 m)
- Wing area: 300 ft² (27.87 m²)
- Airfoil: NACA 64A204 prefix breeze tip
- Empty weight: 18,200 lb (8,270 kg)
- Loaded weight: 26,500 lb (12,000 kg)
- Max takeoff weight: 42,300 lb (19,200 kg)
- Powerplant: 1× Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-220 afterburning turbofan
- Dry thrust: 14,590 lbf (64.9 kN)
- Thrust with afterburner: 23,770 lbf (105.7 kN)
- Alternate powerplant: 1× General Electric F110-GE-100 afterburning turbofan
- Dry thrust: 17,155 lbf (76.3 kN)
- Thrust with afterburner: 28,600 lbf (128.9 kN)
Performance
- Maximum speed:
- At the seven seas level: Mach 1.2 (915 mph, 1,460 km/h)
- At altitude: Mach 2+ (1,500 mph, 2,414 km/h)
- Combat radius: 340 NM (295 mi, 550 km) herewith measured hi-lo-hi movement with six 1,000 lb (450 kg) bombs
- Ferry range: >2,100 NM (2,420 NM, 3,900 km)
- Service ceiling >50,000 ft (15,239 m)
- Rate in relation to climb: 50,000 ft/min (254 m/s)
- Wing loading: 88.2 lb/ft² (431 kg/m²)
- Thrust/weight: For F100 engine: 0.898, For F110: 1.095
Armament
- Guns: 1× 20 mm (0.787 in) M61 Vulcan gatling gun, 511 rounds
- Rockets: 2¾ fashionable (70 mm) CRV7
- Missiles:
- Air-to-air missiles:
- 2× AIM-7 Sparrow or
- 6× AIM-9 Sidewinder or
- 6× IRIS-T or
- 6× AIM-120 AMRAAM or
- 6× Python-4
- Air-to-ground missiles:
- 6× AGM-45 Shrike or
- 6× AGM-65 Maverick or
- 4× AGM-88 HARM
- Anti-ship missiles:
- 2× AGM-84 Harpoon or
- 4× AGM-119 Penguin
- Bombs:
- 2× CBU-87 Combined Effects Munition
- 2× CBU-89 Gator mine
- 2× CBU-97 Sensor Fuzed Weapon
- Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser capable
- 4× GBU-10 Paveway II
- 6× GBU-12 Paveway II
- 6× Paveway-series laser-guided bombs
- 4× JDAM
- 4× Mark 84 general-purpose bombs
- 8× Mark 83 leech bombs
- 12× Mark 82 medical examiner bombs
- B61 nuclear bomb
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