An Air Force Thunderbird F-16 crashed in 2025 when its engine blew up, as did a training jet in New Mexico in 2024. Investigators traced both mishaps to a "blind spot" inside the engine.

The Air Force is changing how F-16 crews inspect a “blind spot” in the plane’s engine that has been at the root of at least two accidents in the last two years, including one that destroyed an Air ...

U.S. defense technology company Shield AI is exploring plans to establish a regional F-16 engine maintenance facility and manufacturing operations in Poland, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing Polish ...

What will be the next light fighter to take up the mantle the F-16 leaves behind?

Four decades after the first F-16s entered service and more than twenty years since the Eurofighter Typhoon joined the RAF, Western fighter aviation finds itself at an unusual crossroads. Aircraft ...