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I love the way in wich we Poles change in translation meaning of many movies, books and... F-16s. Do You want to know name of polish Falcon?

"Jastrzab" - means Hawk :doh: . Don't know why they have done that...

There was a competion for the name. The propositions were really funny. Best one: "predatory potato beetle". I'm not kidding! Ask Shaman.

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I just hope that Polish F-16s will be called "Bielik" not "Kaczka". We'll know after 11th this month.

I'll be there on 9th when they arrive.

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In my country the 201 squad that operates them are named "Falcões" Falcons...duh! They used to operate F-86's and disbanded in early 80's without any AA planes. They were Re-established in 1994 at the delivery of the first Block 15 ADF falcons. Theres another F-16 squad arround 302 "jaguars" taking deleivery of the MLU's right now (used to operate A-7's).

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So, can they operate from secondary airfields (extra wide and straight pieces of road, with some extra asphalt layers and such)

 

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Depends. IF you have high tension cables and tree branches above it, then no. :) Otherwise yes. We have F-16's landing and taking off from realy small airstrips here. SOme of them are litle wider than roads.

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Actually, "Jastreb" (croatian version fo the word) is IMO pretty cool name.

I mean why whatever change the name? We don't have any falcons yet. We won't have any original configurations of 16s to change the code name. I don't really think I will change the way I call it and pilots here either.

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Seriousely, will the F-16 be able to take off and land (more than once lol) from highway strips?

I saw some photos from excercises in Germany when dutch (or norwegian...?) 16s land on the autobahns on not so long distance between two viaducts.

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