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Northrop Grumman Testing Upgrades on AN/ASQ-236 for F-15E and F-16

Northrop Grumman Testing Upgrades on AN/ASQ-236 for F-15E and F-16
The AN/ASQ-236 Radar Pod has synthetic aperture radar that provides detailed maps for surveillance, coordinate generation and bomb impact assessment purposes. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, Md.–While the U.S. Air Force has installed the Northrop Grumman [NOC] AN/APG-83 scalable agile beam radar (SABR) on dozens of Air National Guard F-16s, the service also equips F-15E Strike Eagle and F-16 Viper fighters with the Northrop Grumman Active Electronically Scanned Array AN/ASQ-236 "Dragon's Eye" side-looking, air-to-ground mapping radar pod. "We're still doing some upgrade testing on that [ASQ-236]," said Dan "Dix" Dixon, director of flight test engineering here for Northrop Grumman Mission Systems and a former F/A-18 pilot…

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