Aviation History - January 2016

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on the mark An image

from the head-up display

of one of the F-16s shows

the pilot zeroing in on the

reactor dome.

THE F-16’S

COMPUTERIZED

BOMB-SIGHTING

SYSTEM WAS

A MARVEL

OF MODERN

WARFARE.