United States Air Force Wall Art

United States Air Force — 10 museum-grade prints from this operator. Pilots and maintainers have called the F-16 the Viper since the 1980s — a nickname that stuck when the official Fighting Falcon name never quite matched squadron-bar banter. The F-16V Block 70 package adds an AESA radar, modern cockpit architecture, and structural upgrades that extend airframe life for operators from the U. The McDonnell Douglas F-4G Advanced Wild Weasel was the United States Air Force's final Phantom-based SEAD platform, converting surplus F-4E airframes at Hill Air Force Base with APR-38 Radar Homing and Warning System pods and ARN-101 digital modular avionics to locate and destroy enemy radar emitters. Paired with the Textron AGM-88 HARM, the F-4G devastated integrated air-defence networks during Operation Desert Storm — 561st TFS aircraft launched opening-night HARM salvos against Baghdad-area SAM sites. Developed under Lockheed's Have Blue and Senior Trend programmes, the F-117A became the world's first operational low-observable combat aircraft — maiden flight 1981, operational from 1983, public reveal 1988. Despite the popular "Stealth Fighter" nickname and its F-series designation, the Nighthawk was strictly an attack platform: subsonic, two internal weapon bays, and a radar cross-section shrunk by faceted shaping rather than curved LO surfaces.

Updated 14 Jun 2026