The F-16 features an outstanding global logistics network. With aircraft based at more than 80 locations worldwide – from the hottest climates to the coldest – Lockheed Martin offers complete sustainment solutions for any customer force size, operational concept and support arrangement. Additionally, world-class training ensures F-16 pilots and maintenance technicians reflect the skills and insights of seasoned experts. As the backbone of many coalition operations, the F-16 provides full interoperability. With an unprecedented upgrade roadmap that assures continuous technology insertion, the F-16 offers customers affordable technology upgrades to ensure that aircraft purchased today will remain viable well into the future. Weapons and Sensors. F-16 stores integration continues to grow – more than 100 stores in 5,000 combinations. The latest precision air-to-surface weapons have been integrated into the F-16, along with multispectral targeting pods that provide both air-to-air and air-to-ground features. Special mission capability, such as anti-radiation lethal defense suppression, anti-shipping and photoreconnaissance, has been added to the fighter’s stores mix. With combined load-outs of air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons, the F-16 has demonstrated the ability to provide self-escort, defending itself against enemy fighters.