F-16 Conformal Air Refuel Tank System

[Lankan Ranger]

F-16 Conformal Air Refuel Tank System

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[Lankan Ranger]

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[nomi007]

good for Pakistan if he adapted this system

 

[gambit]

That is waaaayyyyy too close for comfort.

 

[Kompromat]

They are block 60 ain't they ?

 

[LegionnairE]

Both refueling types have advantages and disadvantages...

I like boom and receptacle type more but it needs more skill...

They are block 60 ain't they ?

Could be block50+ or block52+

 

[HAIDER]

CFT convert this plane into strategic bomber, fighter ....

 

[Super Falcon]

looks ugly to me im not in favour of this system boom tech is looking better for f 16 hope it faills and it is very complicated tech compare to boom refuel

 

[Imran Khan]

SF bro look cearfully its errection pod. it can be use for refuling and then f-16 will take it india the CFT. and close the cover .

 

[True_Pakistan_Zindabad]

The CFT makes sense as we have no A2A refuel capability for American fighters. Extra fuel = longer range and that complicates matters for the enemy.

 

[calcutta]

firstly i apologize for being a spoil-sport......


oops .... look what i found


F-16 gets Hose and drogue refueling pod for India’s Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft contest (PIC)

By admin at 29 July, 2010, 2:20 am

BY: Aviation, Defense and Space News, Jobs, Conferences by AVIATION WEEK

It’s remarkable that the Lockheed Martin F-16, despite being exported worldwide for 35 years, can’t be refueled except by the handful of air forces that fly boom-equipped tankers. Cobham’s Sargent-Fletcher division demonstrated a modified 370 gal wing tank a few years ago that housed a retractable probe, apparently for Israel, but as far as is known it was not adopted.

Hose and drogue refueling is mandatory for India’s Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft contest, however, so Lockheed Martin, Cobham and HAL have teamed up to develop the Conformal Air Refueling Tanker/System (CARTS), which adds a probe in the forward end of the right-hand overwing conformal tank.

As the upper picture shows, CARTS makes the F-16 into a refueling hermaphrodite, with both a probe and a slipway, a feature not seen on many aircraft – the UK’s E-3D AWACS and the F-105 are the only examples I can think of. In addition to being offered for the F-16IN, it is retrofittable to any Advanced Block 50/52 version.