How To Differentiate The F-15 And The F-16 The easiest way to tell an F-15 from the F-16 is to look at their engines — the F-16 has a single engine, so it only has one exhaust nozzle at the back.

Delivery of the first F-15 began in 1974, but it was soon joined by the improved F-15C and F-15D in 1979. The F-15 airframe design was deemed to be so successful that the F-15E Strike Eagle was ...

However, the F-15 and F-16, despite similar designations, are very different platforms. Let’s consider what makes each of the Air Force’s fourth-generation fighters unique from one another.

For more than 50 years, that sound – the sound of the Pratt & Whitney F100 engine – has signaled to U.S. and allied forces that help had arrived, in the form of F-15 or F-16 fighter jets.

One of the most impressive fighter jets in the U.S. Air Force's inventory was the F-15 Eagle. For a while, it was the F-15 and F-16 Falcon at the center of the branch's aerial strategy.

“The average age of an Air Force fighter nowadays is about 30 years old,” she says. She notes that the F-16 she flew dates to 1985, and it’s still kicking around.

For more than forty years, the F-16 Fighting Falcon has served as the backbone of the U.S. Air Force’s fighter fleet, but one year before the first F-16 entered service, the team behind its ...

The F-16 fighting falcon was built under an unusual agreement creating a consortium between the United States and four NATO countries: Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway.

Ukraine is asking for more modern F-15 and F-16 fighter jets from the U.S. and western allies that it says could be pushed into the fight against Russia within weeks, but experts say the proposal ...