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Lockheed Martin's F-16V 'Viper' takes maiden flight - UPI.com
FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 21 (UPI) --Lockheed Martin's F-16V "Viper" took flight for the first time, the company announced on Wednesday.
Lockheed Martin says the F-16V fighter is the most advanced fourth-generation F-16 on the market today. It comes equipped with a new cockpit featuring a modernized mission computer and other enhancements aimed to bolster combat capabilities. During the maiden flight, the jet was fitted with Northrop Grumman's advanced APG-83 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Scalable Agile Beam Radar, the first time for an F-16.
Lockheed Martin's F-16/F-22 Integrated Fighter Group vice president and general manager Rod McLean calls the flight a "historic milestone" for the F-16's evolution.
"The new F-16V configuration includes numerous enhancements designed to keep the F-16 at the forefront of international security, strengthening its position as the world's foremost combat-proven 4th Generation fighter aircraft," McLean said
in a statement.
Lockheed Martin's F-16 is a multi-role fighter, and can be found in the fleets of 28 customers around the world. In addition to modernized software and radar technology, the F-16 can also be upgraded to hold advanced weapons, Auto Ground Collision Avoidance System, and the Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod.
Compare it with the F-16 block 60IN, you will get the answer. By the way the production of F-16 will cease from 2017. And F-16V is nothing but the modified F-16 block 60 proposed to get its last order from indonesia, Malasia, and the enhancement is Sabr Aesa, and EW suit, Thats why said Block 70 is the latest and the most advance Teen.
Lockheed Martin's F-16V 'Viper' takes maiden flight - UPI.com
FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 21 (UPI) --Lockheed Martin's F-16V "Viper" took flight for the first time, the company announced on Wednesday.
Lockheed Martin says the F-16V fighter is the most advanced fourth-generation F-16 on the market today. It comes equipped with a new cockpit featuring a modernized mission computer and other enhancements aimed to bolster combat capabilities. During the maiden flight, the jet was fitted with Northrop Grumman's advanced APG-83 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Scalable Agile Beam Radar, the first time for an F-16.
Lockheed Martin's F-16/F-22 Integrated Fighter Group vice president and general manager Rod McLean calls the flight a "historic milestone" for the F-16's evolution.
"The new F-16V configuration includes numerous enhancements designed to keep the F-16 at the forefront of international security, strengthening its position as the world's foremost combat-proven 4th Generation fighter aircraft," McLean said
in a statement.
Lockheed Martin's F-16 is a multi-role fighter, and can be found in the fleets of 28 customers around the world. In addition to modernized software and radar technology, the F-16 can also be upgraded to hold advanced weapons, Auto Ground Collision Avoidance System, and the Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod.
Here is the article from 2012
During a presentation at the Singapore Airshow, George Standridge, vice-president of business development at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics noted that most legacy F-16s can be upgraded to the F-16V standard, which is roughly equivalent to the F-16 block 60.
With nearly 4,500 F-16s delivered, this is a natural step in the evolution of the world’s most successful 4th generation fighter. The Fighting Falcon program has continually evolved as it began with the
F-16 A/B as the lightweight fighter then transitioned to
F-16 C/D and
Block 60 versions as customer's requirements changed.
AESA radars offer significant operational capability improvements. Lockheed Martin has developed an innovative solution to affordable retrofit this key technology into existing F-16s. The F-16V configuration is an option for new production jets and elements of the upgrade are available to most earlier-model F-16s. The upgrade effort does not change the aircraft's external configuration.
At the Singapore Airshow, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon are busy promoting their competing AESAs for the F-16V. Northrop Grumman is the current radar supplier for the F-16, having produced more than 6,000 radars for the aircraft in over 30 years. That number includes 80 earlier APG-80 AESA units for the
UAE Block 60 F-16E/Fs. It also built the F-22's AESA radar, and is supplying the APG-81 for the F-35. Raytheon is offering the RACR (Raytheon Advanced Combat Radar), which builds on the experience gained with delivering hundreds of AESA radars into the Boeing Super Hornet program.
Korea has also just issued an RfP for an AESA radar upgrade to its F-16s, and the U.S. government has offered the same to
Taiwan as a less politically sensitive response to its request for 66 new F-16s.
The F-16V is intended to satisfy customers' emerging needs and prepare them to better interoperability with fifth generation fighters such as the F-35 and F-22.
As for V upgrades, Standridge mentioned
South Korea's requirement to upgrade F-16s and the U.S. Air Force's interest in upgrading 300-350 F-16s.
An
F-16 order from Iraq is enough for Lockheed Martin to keep the lines open until the end of 2015