SAVING THE ‘VIPER’ New orders reinvigorate the F-16

THE OPS DESK BRINGING YOU THE LATEST TALK FROM AROUND THE SQUADRONS ON JUNE 25, 2018, Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract worth more than $1 billion to produce 16 Block 70 F-16s for the Royal Bahraini Air Force. The contract represented the initial sale of brand new examples of this variant of the ‘Viper’ after a slew of upgrade contracts, and it will be the first F-16 production program to be performed at Lockheed Martin’s Greenville, South Carolina, facility.