F-16AM/BM

Eintrag

Relevanz für Konflikte

Dies ist der einzige Eintrag des Katalogs zu diesem System. Es ist für die unten genannten Module relevant; der Force Atlas jedes Moduls zeigt, wie es dort eingesetzt wird.

Betreiber

United Arab Emirates: The F-16E/F Block 60 Desert Falcon, built to an Emirati specification and the most advanced F-16 variant exported. · Bahrain: Block 40 aircraft with Block 70 deliveries from 2024. · Israel and the Gulf: The F-16I Sufa and older variants, the bulk of the Israeli fighter force. · Israel and Syria: Reported in the December 2024 strike campaign across Syria; capability context for the Syria module, not an inventory claim. · Ukraine: donated European airframes · Poland and the eastern flank: The F-16C/D Block 52+, named by the Polish Air Force as a service aircraft; a mid-life upgrade to the Block 70/72 standard was approved in 2024. No holdings or basing. · Romania and the eastern flank: Former Portuguese and Norwegian F-16AM/BM, published by the Romanian Air Force as its combat aircraft; Romania also hosts the European F-16 training centre used by Ukrainian pilots. No holdings or basing. · Belgium and the eastern flank: The F-16AM/BM fleet being drawn down as the F-35 arrives; Belgium is among the donors of airframes to Ukraine. · Netherlands and the eastern flank: Retired from Dutch service in 2024 as the F-35 fleet completed; the remaining airframes went to Ukraine and to the Romanian training centre. · Denmark and the eastern flank: Being retired as the F-35 arrives; a donor of airframes to Ukraine and, by government decision, to Argentina. · Norway and the eastern flank: Retired in 2022 after the F-35 transition; airframes transferred to Romania and to Ukraine.

Rolle auf dem Gefechtsfeld

Air defence against cruise-missile and drone salvos, standoff strike with Western munitions, and the airframe around which Ukraine's transition off the Soviet fleet is being built.

Stärken

Western radar and AMRAAM missiles brought a step-change over the MiG-29 in the counter-air role; native compatibility with Western precision weapons; a deep European spares and training ecosystem behind it.

Einschränkungen

Donated airframes are decades-old MLU stock in modest numbers; airfields and maintenance infrastructure are priority Russian targets, forcing dispersal; the pilot-conversion pipeline is slow; outranged in the long-range air-to-air duel against Su-35s firing very-long-range missiles.

Relevanz für Kampagnen

Abgeleitet: Eine beteiligte Organisation dieser Kampagnen hat eine typisierte Ausrüstungszuordnung zu diesem System. Das ist nicht dasselbe wie ein dokumentierter Einsatz des Systems in der Kampagne selbst.

• Der zwischenstaatliche Krieg von 2026 Seit 28. Februar 2026

  via Israeli Air Force (Documented)

• Die Kampagne der Huthis gegen die Schifffahrt im Roten Meer, 2023–2025 November 2023 – Oktober 2025

  via Israeli Air Force (Documented)

• Israels Gaza-Krieg Since 7 October 2023

  via Israeli Air Force (Documented)

• Die Libanon-Front, 2023–2024 8. Oktober 2023 – 27. November 2024

  via Israeli Air Force (Documented)

• Der Libanonkrieg 2026 Seit 2. März 2026

  via Israeli Air Force (Documented)

• Die ukrainische Deep-Strike-Kampagne Seit 2022

  via Air Force (Documented, high confidence)

• Die strategische Kampagne gegen das ukrainische Stromsystem Since October 2022

  via Air Force (Documented, high confidence)

Visuelle Erkennung

Single engine with a distinctive ventral chin intake, bubble canopy with a single tail fin, cropped-delta wing with wingtip missile rails — visually unmistakable next to the twin-tailed Soviet types Ukraine flies.

Dokumentierter Einsatz im Konflikt

First airframes arrived August 2024 from the Netherlands and Denmark, with Belgian and Norwegian deliveries following. Documented in the air-defence role against cruise missiles and Shahed waves, and later in strike sorties; combat and accident losses are publicly documented and dated. MIDDLE EAST AND SYRIA. The Emirati Block 60, the Bahraini Block 40/70 and the Israeli F-16I are recorded as capability context; the Israeli fleet is the type most reported in the December 2024 strike campaign across Syria. No inventory claim is made for any of them. NATO EASTERN FLANK. The F-16 is the flank's transitional fighter: Poland and Romania fly it as their principal combat aircraft, Belgium is drawing its fleet down, and the Dutch, Danish and Norwegian fleets that retired as the F-35 arrived are the source of Ukraine's airframes. The type therefore ties this module to Ukraine–Russia — the same airframes appear on one side as a retired allied fleet and on the other as a donated Ukrainian one. Baltic air-policing rotations by F-16 operators are recorded on the campaign, not here. No holdings, bases or squadron assignments are stated.

Betreibende Teilstreitkräfte und Dienste

• Belgian Air Component Dokumentiert
• Israeli Air Force Dokumentiert
• Polish Air Force Dokumentiert
• Romanian Air Force Dokumentiert
• Air Force Dokumentiert
• UAE Air Force and Air Defence Dokumentiert