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Here is a cursory look at the Block 60 taken from https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/the-uaes-f-16-block-60-desert-falcon-fleet-04538/
"The Desert Falcons also take a step beyond the standard ground surveillance and targeting pod systems fielded on other F-16s, by incorporating them into the aircraft itself. Northrop Grumman’s AN/ASQ-32 IFTS is derived from its work on the AN/AQS-28 LITENING AT, but internal carriage reduces drag and radar signature, and frees up a weapons pylon. The ASQ-32 can even be used to find aerial targets, allowing passive targeting, and offering a tracking option that radar stealth won’t evade.
A JHMCS helmet mounted display provides parity with the fighter’s most modern counterparts, and displays information from the aircraft’s radar and sensors wherever the pilot looks. Its real advantage is that it creates a much larger targeting zone, which can be fully exploited by the newest air-to-air missiles like the AIM-9X. Avionics improvements round out the enhancements via an advanced mission computer to enhance sensor and weapon integration, a trio of 5″x7″ color displays in the cockpit, etc.
Various advanced electronic countermeasures systems make up the Falcon Edge Integrated Electronic Warfare System (IEWS), which provides both advance warning capabilities and automatic countermeasures release."
It already has sensor fusion, also according to the Lockheed's own website as well ... https://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/f16/versions.html
Anyways, I will stop this discussion on here as it is not really relevant to the thread. Your assertion about the both M2000s upgrade and J-10C are your opinion, so I will just take it as that and keep my disagreements, especially given that no one even knows what EW/avionics are in the latter aircraft or even what the performance of its AESA radar would be.
"The Desert Falcons also take a step beyond the standard ground surveillance and targeting pod systems fielded on other F-16s, by incorporating them into the aircraft itself. Northrop Grumman’s AN/ASQ-32 IFTS is derived from its work on the AN/AQS-28 LITENING AT, but internal carriage reduces drag and radar signature, and frees up a weapons pylon. The ASQ-32 can even be used to find aerial targets, allowing passive targeting, and offering a tracking option that radar stealth won’t evade.
A JHMCS helmet mounted display provides parity with the fighter’s most modern counterparts, and displays information from the aircraft’s radar and sensors wherever the pilot looks. Its real advantage is that it creates a much larger targeting zone, which can be fully exploited by the newest air-to-air missiles like the AIM-9X. Avionics improvements round out the enhancements via an advanced mission computer to enhance sensor and weapon integration, a trio of 5″x7″ color displays in the cockpit, etc.
Various advanced electronic countermeasures systems make up the Falcon Edge Integrated Electronic Warfare System (IEWS), which provides both advance warning capabilities and automatic countermeasures release."
It already has sensor fusion, also according to the Lockheed's own website as well ... https://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/f16/versions.html
Anyways, I will stop this discussion on here as it is not really relevant to the thread. Your assertion about the both M2000s upgrade and J-10C are your opinion, so I will just take it as that and keep my disagreements, especially given that no one even knows what EW/avionics are in the latter aircraft or even what the performance of its AESA radar would be.
