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Earlier that year, an F-16 was involved in another friendly fire incident with a Patriot missile battery.<ref>[http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/030326-patriot01.htm Patriot Missiles apparently Falter for Second Time]</ref>  There were no casualties, but the battery’s radar dish was destroyed when the Falcon hit it with a HARM missile.

Earlier that year, an F-16 was involved in another friendly fire incident with a Patriot missile battery.<ref>[http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/030326-patriot01.htm Patriot Missiles apparently Falter for Second Time]</ref>  There were no casualties, but the battery’s radar dish was destroyed when the Falcon hit it with a HARM missile.

F-16s are still active in counter-insurgency missions, and a number of F-16 pilots have been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for missions over Iraq.<ref>[http://www.f-16.net/news_topic149.html F-16 Conflict News]</ref>  The most famous action of the war that involved the Fighting Falcon was the 2006 strike that assassinated Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, then the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq.<ref>[http://www.famousplanes.info/f-16-fighting-falcon.php FamousPlanes.info: Fighting Falcon]</ref>

F-16s are still active in counter-insurgency missions, and a number of F-16 pilots have been awarded the [[Distinguished Flying Cross]] for missions over Iraq.<ref>[http://www.f-16.net/news_topic149.html F-16 Conflict News]</ref>  The most famous action of the war that involved the Fighting Falcon was the 2006 strike that assassinated Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, then the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq.<ref>[http://www.famousplanes.info/f-16-fighting-falcon.php FamousPlanes.info: Fighting Falcon]</ref>

==The F-16 in Media==

==The F-16 in Media==