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Aircraft Details

General Dynamics F-16C Block 30

General characteristics

 * Crew: 1
 * Length: 49ft 5in (15.06m)
 * Wingspan: 32ft 8in (9.96m)
 * Height: 16ft (4.88m)
 * Wing area: 300sq ft (27.87sq m)
 * Airfoil: NACA 64A204 root and tip
 * Empty weight: 18,900lb (8,570kg)
 * Loaded weight: 26,500lb (12,000kg)
 * Max takeoff weight: 42,300lb (19,200kg)
 * Powerplant: 1 F110-GE-100 afterburning turbofan
    - Dry thrust: 17,155lbf (76.3kN)
    - Thrust with afterburner: 28,600lbf (127kN)
 * Fuel Capacity: 7,000lbs internal (3,175kg); typical capacity, 12,000lbs with two external tanks (5443kg)

Performance

 * Maximum speed:
    - At sea level: Mach 1.2 (915mph, 1,470km/h)
    - At altitude: Mach 2- (1,500mph, 2,410km/h) clean configuration
 * Combat radius: 340mi (295nm, 550km) on a hi-lo-hi mission with six 1,000lb (450kg) bombs
 * Ferry range: 2,280NM (2,620mi, 4,220km) with drop tanks
 * Service ceiling: 60,000-ft (18,000-m)
 * Rate of climb: 50,000ft/min (254m/s)
 * Wing loading: 88.3 lb/sq ft (431 kg/sq m)
 * Thrust/weight: 1.095

Armament

 * Guns: 1 - 20 mm (0.787in) M61 Vulcan 6-barreled gatling cannon, 511 rounds
 * Hardpoints: 2 - wing-tip Air-to-air missile launch rails, 6 under-wing & 3 under-fuselage pylon stations holding up to 17,000lb (7,700kg) of payload

 * Rockets:
    - 4 - LAU-61/LAU-68 rocket pods (each with 19 /7 Hydra 70mm rockets, respectively) or
    - 4 - LAU-5003 rocket pods (each with 19 CRV7 70mm rockets) or
    - 4 - LAU-10 rocket pods (each with 4 Zuni 127mm rockets)

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 GP bombs
    - 12 - Mark 82 GP bombs
    - 8 - Small Diameter Bomb
    - B61 nuclear bomb

Others:
    - SUU-42A/A Flares/Infrared decoys dispenser pod and chaff pod or
    - AN/ALQ-131 & AN/ALQ-184 ECM pods or
    - LANTIRN, Lockheed Martin Sniper XR & LITENING targeting pods or
    - up to 3 - 300/330/370 US gallon Sargent Fletcher drop tanks for ferry flight/extended range/loitering time.

Avionics
 * AN/APG-68 radar

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