The F-16 Fighting Falcon serves as a multi-role fighter/bomber aircraft. It's high maneuverability has proven affective in its air-to-air combat and ground attack roles. The F-16 is strong in the air combat role because of its maneuverability and its combat radius. These same attributes also help in the bombing role because the F-16 is capable of defending itself against enemy planes before reaching a target and yet still continue on and destroy the target with high accuracy. Also the F-16 also has equipment that will allow it to seek and destroy targets in all weather conditions.

The F-16 uses many new technologies in its design such as a fly-by-wire flight control system that replaced the conventional hydraulic lines used in past aircraft. This fly-by-wire system sends information on how the aircraft should fly from the pilots control stick to actuators on the control surfaces of the aircraft by electronic relays. This has the advantage of slightly higher reaction time from the moment the pilot moves the stick and when the aircraft responds. The new flight system is also lighter then conventional hydraulic systems.