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A falcon usually refers to falcon, a bird of prey, but may also be:

Aircraft:

• F-16 Fighting Falcon, fighter aircraft
• Dassault Falcon, family of business jets manufactured by Dassault Aviation
• Rolls-Royce Falcon, First World War Aero engine used in the Bristol F.2 Fighter
• Force Application and Launch from Continental United States (FALCON), hypersonic Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle currently in development by Lockheed Martin

Rocketry:

• Falcon 1, Falcon 5 and Falcon 9, space launch vehicle made by SpaceX
• AIM-4 Falcon, first operational guided air-to-air missile of the US Air Force
• AGM-76 Falcon, experimental US high speed nuclear strike air-to-surface missile

Transportation:

• Ford Falcon, motor car
• Falcon (car make), British automobile manufacturer
• British Rail Class 53 Falcon, 1961 lightweight electric-diesel locomotive

Entertainment:

• Falcon (comics), comic book superhero
• The Falcon (literary character), detective created by Michael Arlen in 1940
• Falcon (computer game), series of combat flight simulator computer games
• The Falcon (band), Chicago punk rock band
• Lt. Falcon, Green Beret character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero series
• Falcon Studios, porn production company

Sports:

• Atlanta Falcons, American NFL football team based in Georgia
• New Zealand (Australian rules football National Team), called the Falcons
• Falcon (sport), humourous term for being hit on the head by the ball

Other uses:

• Falcón, Venezuelan state
• FALCON, submarine communications cable connecting several countries in the Persian Gulf and India
• Atari Falcon, computer based on the Motorola 68030 CPU
• Christopher Boyce, nicknamed Falcon, American traitor and walk-in Soviet spy

• Disambiguation pages