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Kinetic has released the next installment in their impressive fighting falcon series. The f16i nicknamed sufa storm is manufactured by lockheed martin and equipped with advanced systems developed by the countrys defense industries. Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order 1toz. Buy lockheed martin f16i sufa in israeli air force service aircraft in detail israeli air force aircraft in detail by raanan weiss isbn. The f16i is a twoseat variant of the block 52 developed for the israeli defense force air force. An f16i sufa of the israeli air force flying over ramon air force base, israel. While many of the f 16s flown by the idf were configured over time while in israeli service, the f 16i was unique in that it was essentially an f 16d block 52 built to israeli. The israel defense forceair force ordered a total of 362 f16s, from early f16abs to the latest f16i. This spine modification used to be exclusive to the israeli air force f16ds, but the design has found its way into the singapore air force as well as elsewhere.
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