The F-16 has three different air-to-air weapons systems, each with unique characteristics, designed to engage targets under different conditions. You can fire at targets up to 25 nautical miles away with your AMRAAM radar-guided missile, engage enemies at up to 5 nautical miles with the Sidewinder heat-seeking missile, or close to under 2 miles and blast away with the M61A1 six-barreled 20mm cannon

AIM-120 AMRAAM

• Type: Air to Air Missile
  
• HUD Mode: MRM
  
• Guidance: Radar
  
• Range: 25 nautical miles
  
• Weight: 332 pounds

The AIM-120 AMRAAM (Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile) is a high-supersonic, day/night/all weather Beyond Visual Range (BVR), fire-and-forget air-to-air missile. Although it relies on the F-16’s internal APG-68 radar to acquire targets, it can track them all on its own. Shortly after launch, an independent radar system in the missile’s nose takes over the tracking task and guides the missile to its target, leaving the pilot free to concentrate on other tasks, and other targets. Housed in a light-weight structure of steel and titanium, the AMRAAM contains a 40-pound highexplosive warhead. The missile has an effective range of over 25 nautical miles and can achieve a speed of Mach 4.

AIM-9M Sidewinder

• Type: Air to Air Missile
  
• HUD Mode: SRM
  
• Guidance: Heat
  
• Range: 5 nautical miles
  
• Weight: 188 pounds

The Aerial Intercept Missile Nine, AIM-9M, is nicknamed the Sidewinder due to the peculiar back-and-forth motion it makes when tracking a target. The infrared guidance head enables the missile to hone on the target aircraft’s engine exhaust. Pilots frequently comment that the missile will “growl“ while it is seeking to find a target, then emit a steady tone once one is acquired. The AIM-9M is an “all-aspect“ missile, meaning that it can track a target from any angle. Because the missile does not rely on the F-16 radar, the pilot is free to leave the area or take evasive action while the missile guides itself to the target. Less expensive than other types of guidance systems, the infrared seeker can be used in day or night.

M61A1 20mm Cannon

• Type: 6 barreled Gatling Cannon
  
• Range: under 2 nautical miles

The Lockheed-Martin GE M61A1 20mm Cannon provides an average of 6,000 rounds per minute with six rotating barrels. The rate of fire is so fast that it sounds like a raspy hum. The M61A1 is located at the portside of the fuselage and fed by the ammo drum located just behind the cockpit. Ammunition is loaded through an access door on the bottom of the starboard wing, next to the air intake. This weapon is extremely valuable in close range dogfighting, where it is too close to properly engage missiles. The M61A1 has a maximum range of approximately 2 nautical miles, but for effective shooting you should close to under 1 nautical mile. The ammo drum has a 511-round capacity.

The F-16 has a variety of Air-to-Surface missiles and bombs tochoose from, in fact more so than any other type of jet fighter.


AGM-65B Maverick

• Type: Air to Ground Missile
  
• HUD Mode: EO
  
• Guidance: Television
  
• Range: 5 nautical miles
  
• Weight: 597 pounds

The AGM-65 Maverick is an electro-optically guided 130lb warhead missile. The pilot may launch the missile and search for a target beyond visual range with a television guidance system. The Mavericks are primarily used in the Close Air Support missions against hardened targets such as tanks.

AGM-65G Maverick

• Type: Air to Ground Missile
  
• HUD Mode: EO
  
• Guidance: Thermal Imaging
  
• Range: 12 nautical miles
  
• Weight: 664 pounds

Unlike the AGM-65B, this missile employs an inertial infrared guidance system to grant it a considerable range advantage. In addition, it is capped with a powerful 300lb warhead, a digital autopilot and the TX-633 reduced smoke rocket motor.

AGM-84A Harpoon

• Type: Anti-Ship Missile
  
• HUD Mode: ASM
  
• Guidance: Radar
  
• Range: 29 nautical miles
  
• Weight: 1135 pounds

Widely used by NATO, the AGM-84A Harpoon is an all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile. The radar guided, sea-skimming cruise trajectory can effectively deliver the 488 lb. proximity warhead to its target. Although the turbojet engine is not capable of the supersonic speeds common in rocket propulsion, what it lacks in speed it more than makes up for in range. When directed at a sea target the range will significantly increase.

AGM-88 HARM

• Type: Anti-radar Missile
  
• HUD Mode: ARM
  
• Guidance: Passive Radar
  
• Range: 24 nautical miles
  
• Weight: 793 pounds

The AGM-88 HARM (High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile) is an improvement on the radar honing AGM-45 Shrike, especially in attacking Surface to Air Missile (SAM) Sites. To strike without warning, the propulsion system of the HARM is capable of Mach 3 with a far range of 25 nautical miles. Unlike the Shrike, the HARM will resort to a backup navigation system in the event of the target disengaging its radar. The F-16C is currently the only aircraft capable of housing the HARM.

Mk 20 Rockeye Cluster Bomb

• Type: Anti-Tank Cluster Bomb
  
• HUD Mode: CCIP
  
• Guidance: None
  
• Range: 7 nautical miles
  
• Weight: 908 pounds

Highly potent against tank formations, ground troops and small buildings, the MK 20 Rockeye is a superb unguided, free-fall bomb. When it is deployed, it drops some distance, then bursts open to dispense 247 dual-purpose armor-piercing shapedcharge bomblets, each of which produces its own small explosion. The Mk 20 is most effective when released from an altitude of a few hundred feet: this gives the bomblets time to spread over a specific area.

GBU LGB

• Type: Laser Guided Bomb
  
• HUD Mode: EO
  
• Guidance: Semi-Active Laser
  
• Range: 7 nautical miles
  
• Weight: 500-2004 pounds

Considered both inexpensive and competent, the GBU series consists of laser guidance heads attached to low drag, general-purpose Mk bombs. The one-inch thick steel case fragments when the nose to tail fuze ignites the explosive Tritonal 80/20 upon impact. At 500 lb., the GBU-12 Mk82 is primarily used against tanks and ground force targets. The GBU-16 1000 lb. Mk83 bomb can be utilized against small to medium sized buildings and storage tanks. As the F-16’s largest bomb, the GBU-10 2000 lb. Mk84 destroys large targets such as factories, bridges, power plants, and hardened bunkers.

JDAM Bombs

• Type: Joint Direct Attack Munition
  
• HUD Mode: CCIP
  
• Guidance: GPS
  
• Range: 7 nautical miles
  
• Weight: 500-2004 pounds

The Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) is a superior guidance system attached to the Mk 82 500-pound bomb, Mk 83 1000- pound bomb or the Mk 84 2000-pound bomb. The all-weather guidance system for the JDAM unit relies on internal sensors and gyroscopes and Global Positioning System (GPS) data, transmitted from a satellite. The JDAM flight system uses this data to move control surfaces on the bomb, allowing it to glide to its target without input from the F-16. The JDAM can achieve impressive accuracy with this system, usually planting the bomb within three meters of the computed impact point.

5 Fuel 300 Gal, JDAM 500, GBU-12,
4&6 Fuel 600 Gal, Fuel 370 Gal, JDAM 2000, JDAM 1000, JDAM 500(2), JDAM 500, GBU-10, GBU-16, GBU-12(2), GBU-12, MK 20(3), Harpoon, Maverick TV, Maverick IR
3&7 JDAM 2000, JDAM 1000, JDAM 500(2), JDAM 500, GBU-10, GBU-16, GBU-12(2), GBU-12, MK 20(2), HARM, Harpoon, Maverick TV(3), Maverick TV, Maverick IR(3), Maverick IR, AMRAAM (2), Sidewinder
2&8 AMRAAM, Sidewinder
1&9 AMRAAM, Sidewinder
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