Specifications F-16 Fighting Falcon

Powerplant: one 129 kN (26,000 lb st) General Electric F110-GE-129 or Pratt & Whitney F100-P-229 turbofan

Dimensions: length 15.03m (49 ft 4 in); height 5.09m (16 ft 8½ in); wing span (over tip launchers) 9.45m (31ft 0 in)

Weights: take-off ('clean') 9.791 kg (21,585 lb); Max Take-Off Weight 19.187 kg (42,300 lb)

Performance: max level speed at 12.120m (40,000 ft) more than Mach 2 or 2.124 km/h (1,320 mph); service ceiling more than 15,240m (50,000 ft)

Armament: one 20mm M61A1 Vulcan six-barrel gun with 515 rounds; 9276 kg (20,450 lb) of disposable stores, including nuclear weapons, ASMs, AAMs, anti-radar missiles, anti-ship missiles, free-fall or guided bombs, cluster bombs, dispenser weapons, rocket launchers, napalm tanks, drop tanks and ECM pods, carried on nine external hardpoints