Everything you need to know about Turkish Air Force F-16s

Turkey has one of the biggest Lockheed Martin F-16 fleets in the world. Cem Dogut looks at how these jets have protected the vast country F-16C Block 40Ms of 161 Filo ‘Yarasalar’ (‘Bats’) from Bandirma, seen on a NATO air policing mission over Poland in 2021. They are loaded with two AIM-120 AMRAAMs and two AIM-9 Sidewinders each – a standard CAP or QRA mission load. It is common to carry different AIM-120 variants in the same aircraft in the TurAF. The