So, I was sitting in a Super-80 on the tarmac at Tucson International, and I was looking out the window at a couple of F-16s taxiing to the runway from nearby (one of the highlights of Tucson International is the variety of fighter jets that can be seen there).
Anyhow, these weren’t American F-16s, the main structural difference that I could determine being a bulge along the “shoulders” of the plane (well, the right shoulder at least, I couldn’t see the other side of the jet). The tail had a horizontal tricolour on it, colored from top to bottom, green, white, and a dark color that could be anywhere from red to black (hard to tell in the picture I took), possibly with a vertical stripe of red on one side of the tricolour.
So, I’m curious, does anybody know what country these planes were from? For that matter, does anyone know what the bulges on the upper fuselage would be for? Extra fuel tanks? Electronics? Compartments for checked baggage?