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QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target Moves Toward Testing

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

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CECIL FIELD, Fla.—Elected officials, Air Force representatives and Boeing [BA] employees gathered here Friday to celebrate the QF-16, a program to bring the Air Force a more capable and threat representative target than it has now. The QF-16 program has been in place for two years under a $72 million pre-engineering and manufacturing development program awarded to Boeing in March 2010 to turn six manned F-16 aircraft into an unmanned or manned full-scale aerial target. Right now, the requirement is…

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