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L3Harris Sees Foreign Military Sales Potential for F-16 EW Suite

Frank Wolfe

Monday, March 22nd, 2021

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L3Harris Sees Foreign Military Sales Potential for F-16 EW Suite

A group of F-16 Fighting Falcons assigned to the 480th Fighter Squadron and the Royal Moroccan Air Force prepare for take-off at Ben Guerir Air Base, Morocco, May 11, 2015 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

L3Harris [LHX] said on March 22 that it is looking for Foreign Military Sales (FMS) of the company's Viper Shield advanced electronic warfare suite for Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-16 fighter aircraft. In January, Northrop Grumman [NOC] said that the U.S. Air Force had picked the company to finish a new F-16 EW suite under an Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement for prototyping (Defense Daily, Jan. 11). While the Northrop Grumman EW suite beat out Viper Shield for equipping U.S. F-16s,…

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