Ryuu96 said:
In the context of total supplies it's not that much, more than 4,450 F-16s have been delivered worldwide as of 2010. As of 2023, the USAF operates a total of 841 F-16s of different variants. European allies likely have hundreds in total. I think your navy is more important than your air force considering your natural barrier, Lol. But Australia has AUKUS so nobody will threaten you. Honestly no single country could nowadays take on a nuclear power alone, that's why we have NATO and security partnerships. |
So the exact numbers of F-16s each nation has are public. It's actually not that common a fighter in Europe, because it has considerable overlap with multiple European designs. The only large scale operator is Greece. But they're unlikely to give up their F-16s when Turkey is right next door with hundreds of their own.
Most of the F-16s are operated by the USA, which is quite understandable given the scale of its security obligations and its geographic position. The rest are mostly found in the Middle East (Israel, Egypt, Turkey) and East Asia (South Korea, Taiwan,
