A US Air Force (USAF) F-16 CJ Fighting Falcon, 20th Fighter Wing (FW) wing ship, Shaw Air Force Base (AFB), South Carolina (SC), over New York during a North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) Operation NOBLE EAGLE mission. Below (upper right) is Lower Manhattan with the empty space where the World Trade Center building once stood. The Falcon is armed with AIM-120C Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) and AIM-9M Sidewinder missiles, and equipped with 370-gal fuel tanks and an AN/ALQ-184 ECM (electronic countermeasures) and Electronic Warfare (EW) pod
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: New York
State: New York (NY)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Major Command Shown: NORTHCOM
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Aaron D. Allmon Ii, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
24/09/2003
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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