: An F-16C crashed Tuesday at Nellis AFB, Nev., about 20 miles west of the town of Caliente. The aircraft was participating in an air-to-air combat training mission, said Nellis officials. They said the pilot’s condition is unknown. The airplane went down about 5:30 p.m. local Nevada time.
Raytheon, a division of defense giant RTX, recently announced a multiyear deal with the Pentagon to increase annual production of the Air Force’s primary dogfighting missile by more than 50 percent from two years ago.
