Fully armed with underneath the wing an AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile (AMRAAM), an AIM-9X Sidewinder and a four GBU-49 Small Diameter Bombs. The 370 gallon fuel tank increases the range. Underneath the centerline, an ALQ-131 Electronic Counter Measure (ECM) pod is attached. On the left side of the intake a High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile Targeting System (HTS) is placed, while of the right side a Sniper Advanced targeting pod is attached. This 480th FS "Warhawks", normally based at Spangdahlem, returned from a Operation Inherent Resolve mission over Iraq and/or Syria.

Written off 8 October 2019., it crashed into a wooded area near Zemmer, north of Trier (Germany). The pilot ejected, but was injured and taken to hospital. The F-16 with callsign "Warhawk 11" issued an emergency (squawk 7700) but it has been suggested that it could have been the wing man of the aircraft in trouble. The USAF Accident Investigation Board Report was released on 11 February, 2020. A combination of partail electrical power loss and poor weather immediately after take-off caused the pilot to eject and the US$ 25,551,000 F-16 came down 8 nautical miles south of Spangdahlem.

There's a great many mission marks on the nose of this Viper, I count 162 of them including the faded ones.