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AESA Radar for F-16s Has Achieved FOC Readiness, Northrop Grumman Says

AESA Radar for F-16s Has Achieved FOC Readiness, Northrop Grumman Says
District of Columbia Air National Guard members prepare an F-16D Fighting Falcon for flight at Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, as part of Guardian Shield 20-02, Sept. 21-25 (U.S. Air force Photo)

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Oct. 15 that its AN/APG-83 scalable agile beam radar (SABR) for U.S. Air Force F-16 fighters by Lockheed Martin [LMT] has achieved "full operational capability (FOC) readiness," but Air Combat Command (ACC) said on Oct. 22 that it has yet to declare FOC for the radar. "ACC has not declared FOC for the APG-83 F-16 AESA radar at this time," Alexandra Worley, an ACC spokeswoman wrote in an email. "That's all the information we can…

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