4/8/2017 · QF-16 is able to perform various maneuvers as the real F-16, from taking off to landing after the exercise, if it is not shot down. Each of the drones cost around $1.32 million and available for the defense market under the Foreign Military Sales Program. YouTube.
8/26/2014 · Boeing’s unmanned QF-16 performs for the first time as an aerial target.
7/29/2017 · National Interest is reporting a QF-16 Shot Down at Eglin. Anyone have a tail number yet? Top. 82_zombies. Newbie. Posts: 1 Joined: 05 Mar 2015 23:00 25 Jul 2017 14:36. It was QF-004 which was also the first QF-16 to fly in the unmanned configuration. It amassed quite a record in its roughly 4 years of service as a full scale aerial target …
7/25/2013 · The first QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target took off from Boeing facility at Cecil Field in Jacksonville, Florida, and climbed to an altitude of 41,000 feet during its 66-minute first flight that …
On 19 July 2017, the first QF-16 was shot down during a Combat Archer Weapons System Evaluation Program (WSEP) exercise. In 2017, a QF-16 was used as a UCAV, autonomously attacking a ground target as a part of the Loyal Wingman program. The Air Force ran this exercise under the name Have Raider II. F-21, Boeing and the U.S. Air Force completed the first unmanned flight of the QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target on Sept. 23, 2013, at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla. The QF-16 mission profile included auto takeoff, a series of simulated maneuvers, supersonic.
8/29/2014 · “Vega 31?: the first and only F-117 Stealth Fighter Jet shot down in combat (15 years ago today) “Viper Drone”: Boeing QF-16 aerial target for U.S. Air Force makes first flight, And some pilots may even get a chance to shoot the target down with a live missile shot . Boeing delivered the first production QF-16 to the 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron at Tyndall Air Force Base, in Florida, last March, followed by six more aircraft.
