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Remembering the F-16N Viper, the best adversary fighter jet ever flown by the US Navy – The Aviation Geek Club

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US Navy F-14 Tomcat and F/A-18 Hornet crews were fighting a truly different aircraft, flown by superb aerial tacticians. The F-16N Viper, a version of the F-16 Fighting Falcon operated by the US Air Force, was procured by the US Navy for use as an adversary aircraft in air combat training, simulating the capabilities of …

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TOPGUN was not as credible of an adversary without the F-16N: why the retirement of the F-16Ns was a blow to the Navy Fighter Weapons School – The Aviation Geek Club

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The opportunity to fly the sleek and high-powered F-16N Vipers, as they were called by the staff, was one of the privileges of being a TOPGUN instructor. The F-16N was the US Navy version of the famous and well used “hot rod” of the Air Forces of the NATO countries, the F-16 Fighting Falcon. The …

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The story of how TOPGUN selected the F-16N Viper, the adversary aircraft that had the ability to simulate the MiG-17, MiG-21, MiG-23, MiG-29 and Su-27 – The Aviation Geek Club

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Not only did the F-16N Viper allow TOPGUN to simulate current fourth-generation threats, it gave them the ability, in one aircraft, to simulate all the threats the school had envisioned. The history of air combat has seen one recurring theme—new tactics are learned in battle, forgotten or discarded when battle concludes, and relearned at great …

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