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Northrop Grumman to Offer SABR Radar for B-52 Modernization Program

By Vivienne Machi

Tuesday, February 26th, 2019

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Northrop Grumman to Offer SABR Radar for B-52 Modernization Program

The Air Force's B-52H Stratofortress strategic bomber

Northrop Grumman [NOC] announced Feb. 26 that it is offering its advanced AN/APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) for the Air Force’s B-52H Stratofortress radar replacement program. The service is planning to upgrade the aging Northrop Grumman-made APQ-166 terrain-following and mapping radars on its venerable bomber fleet. The SABR is under consideration by B-52 aircraft manufacturer Boeing [BA] for the Bomber Modernization Radar System program, Northrop Grumman said Tuesday in a press release. That program will include engineering, manufacturing, development…

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