{"id":195894,"date":"2025-04-05T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/f-16-fighting-falcon-orders-this-year\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T11:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T01:00:16","slug":"will-we-see-more-f-16-fighting-falcon-orders-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=195894","title":{"rendered":"Will We See More F-16 Fighting Falcon Orders This Year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently still serving as the unquestioned backbone of the United States Air Force\u2019s combat fighter fleet, the F-16 Fighting Falcon is currently approaching five full decades of operational combat service. Originally manufactured by the General Dynamics Corporation and later sold to         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60498\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/lockheed-martin\/\"  >Lockheed Martin<\/a><\/span>, the plane has long been one of the most commercially successful fighter jet programs, and the plane has found a wide variety of export customers in addition to the USAF. In total, more than 4,600 F-16 Fighting Falcons have entered service around the globe, and the aircraft remains a presence in more than 25 different nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft offers some impressive capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,625,627,412,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-16","category-lockheed-martin","category-military","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195895,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195894\/revisions\/195895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}