Specialists at other radar design houses question how effective the APG-83 can be since the set depends on using the airflow that cools the other avionics in the F-16 and then using an internal liquid-cooling module and heat exchanger that is on-board the radar set itself.
“This has the advantage of not having to plumb a liquid-cooling system into the aircraft, as Lockheed Martin did with the F-16E/F Block 60 for the UAE,” said a U.S. airborne radar firm’s representative. “But the question is whether or not that cooling solution allows you to run the radar’s T/R modules at their maximum capacity because of the heat that they generate. Plus there are other questions about whether the modules could be software limited in order to be in compliance with U.S. government policy” on the export of sensitive technology.
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