Viper27
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The fact that the news came out that the ADF are unable to fire the AMRAAM, means exactly that they can fire them - as if they couldn't, it would have been kept as a state secret.
It is not a big deal, just a software update. I remember during the sanction years Pak had hacked the F-16's FCS and avionics even, and was doing funny things with them as an experiment.
There is no need to keep a state secret about something that is widely known to anyone who can google ADF F-16s and their capabilities. News came out because the individual units of ADFs we bought from Jordan are all OCU versions of the earliest blocks and did not go through any MLU upgrades.They can fire the previous AMRAAM versions but not the ones we have.
Also, its not as simple as merely tweaking with the FCS. Technology has vastly improved since the 90s and we cannot experiment with our F-16s which carries risk of stoppage of spares and maintenance support. We also needed MLU upgrades at TAI for our own in order to enable them to fire the AMRAAM.