NEW IRAQI AIR FORCE F16IQ BLOCK 52 FIGHTING FALCON SWIRL DESERT SAND νeΙcrο SSI

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This is a very special Original (not cheap import copy) IRAQI AIR FORCE F16IQ BLOCK 52 FIGHTING FALCON SWIRL DESERT SAND
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INSIGNIA Patch. You will receive the item as shown in the first photo. Other items in other pictures are for your reference only, available in my eBay Store.
The General Dynamics (now Lockheed Martin)
F-16 Fighting Falcon
is a single-engine multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF). Designed as anair superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft. Over 4,500 aircraft have been built since production was approved in 1976. Although no longer being purchased by the U.S. Air Force, improved versions are still being built for export customers. In 1993, General Dynamics sold its aircraft manufacturing business to the Lockheed Corporation, which in turn became part of Lockheed Martinafter a 1995 merger with Martin Marietta. The Fighting Falcon has key features including a frameless bubble canopy for better visibility, side-mounted control stick to ease control while maneuvering, a seat reclined 30 degrees to reduce the effect of g-forces on the pilot, and the first use of a relaxed static stability/fly-by-wire flight control system which helps to make it a nimble aircraft. The F-16 has an internal M61 Vulcan cannon and 11 locations for mounting weapons and other mission equipment. The F-16's official name is "Fighting Falcon", but "Viper" is commonly used by its pilots, due to a perceived resemblance to a viper snake as well as the Battlestar GalacticaColonial Viper starfighter. In addition to active duty U.S. Air Force, Air Force Reserve Command, and Air National Guard units, the aircraft is also used by the USAF aerial demonstration team, the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, and as an adversary/aggressor aircraft by the United States Navy. The F-16 has also been procured to serve in the air forces of 25 other nations.
In response to recent reports in the Iraqi press, the US Embassy in Baghdad hasstated  that the country’s F-16IQ Block 52 fighters due for delivery will not be based in Jordan, as claimed by an Iraqi MP earlier this week. Embassy officials stated that the claims were “completely false”, with the F-16s set to operate out of Balad Air Force base, the location of recent intense fighting. The delivery of three Iraqi Air Force F-16s to the base was hampered by security concerns , with the aircraft instead delivered to Arizona for training. F-16 Block 52 FMT #1 is expected to be operational at Balad Air Base, Iraq during Q1 2015, with the rest of the systems ready to go by Q4 2015. The WTTs are a full cockpit simulator, without the FMT’s full motion simulation and 360 degree view. Instead, they’re more like a realistic cockpit with a screen up front. You can network the 2 simulator types, however, which will allow the Iraqis to train cooperative missions of up to 4 pilots. Sources: L-3, Sept 16/13 release.
Four US F-16 warplanes landed in Iraq on July 13, 2015, the first batch of a much-delayed delivery aimed at boosting the ailing Iraqi military's capacity, the defense ministry said. The delivery was most recently delayed over security concerns at Balad, which lies about 70 kilometers (45 miles) north of Baghdad. IS fighters were still battling government forces not far from Balad earlier this year, which was deemed to make it unsafe for the US contractors hired to maintain the jets. Iraq ordered a total of 36 F-16 war planes from the US but the delivery has been slow and reinforcements to its air force when IS threatened to take over the country last year came from Russia and Iran in the form of Sukhoi jets.
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