
The aircraft was built for the Moroccan Air Force at the Greenville plant.
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The F-16 Block 72 fighter is the latest modification of the F-16 aircraft.
The F-16 Block 72 fighter produced by the American military-industrial corporation Lockheed Martin, the most advanced F-16 to date, made its first flight. The portal TWZ writes about this.
A two-seater aircraft contracted by the Royal Moroccan Air Force took off in Greenville, South Carolina.
The new fighter received, in particular, the AN/APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) radar and the Link 16 system, and the main difference between the Block 70 and Block 72 variants is the engine - the former uses a General Electric F110-GE-129 power unit, while the latter uses a Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-229, which provides slightly more power.
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