F-16AM/BM

Fiche

Pertinence pour les conflits

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Opérateurs

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.

Rôle sur le champ de bataille

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.

Points forts

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.

Limites

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.

Pertinence pour les campagnes

Dérivé : une organisation participant à ces campagnes porte une association d’équipement typée avec ce système. Ce n’est pas la même chose qu’un emploi documenté du système dans la campagne elle-même.

• La guerre interétatique de 2026 Depuis le 28 février 2026

  via Israeli Air Force (Documented)

• La campagne houthie contre la navigation en mer Rouge, 2023–2025 novembre 2023 – octobre 2025

  via Israeli Air Force (Documented)

• La guerre d’Israël à Gaza Since 7 October 2023

  via Israeli Air Force (Documented)

• Le front libanais, 2023–2024 8 octobre 2023 – 27 novembre 2024

  via Israeli Air Force (Documented)

• La guerre du Liban de 2026 Depuis le 2 mars 2026

  via Israeli Air Force (Documented)

• La campagne ukrainienne de frappes dans la profondeur Depuis 2022

  via Air Force (Documented, high confidence)

• La campagne stratégique contre le système électrique ukrainien Since October 2022

  via Air Force (Documented, high confidence)

Identification visuelle

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.

Emploi documenté dans les conflits

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.

Opérateurs par composante et par service

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