The F-16 Block 50 runs out of air-to-air missile mounts quickly. On the current test server, the higher-weight F-16 Block 52 and later, more advanced F-16s should increase their air-to-air missile carrying capacity. In the early years, the U.S. added an air-to-air missile to each side of the intake on experimental F-16s, and also added one hardpoint on each side of the main landing gear, but this was later canceled due to emergency landing safety concerns. Alternatively, the current air-to-air hardpoints could be fitted with a composite pylon, keeping the number of air-to-air missiles at over eight, to address the severe disadvantage in missile numbers on the F-16 Block 52 and later models.
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So fake buff.
I think the solution to this problem was developed around the same time as the F-16
Never heard about this unless you are talking about F-16XL which did had something like that
If you are not talking about F-16XL you should probably share some photo or source for it
I think you are talking about the tripple AMRAAM rack. It was never buit though IIRC Turkey or some company has done something about it. If you want to know more about it you could go to F-16 Block 52 topic
I’m not sure about the specifics, but it should be before the end of the Cold War
Yes. It’s the F-15