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U.S. Air Force F-16s Receiving AESA Radars for Cruise Missile Defense

Frank Wolfe

Monday, August 31st, 2020

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U.S. Air Force F-16s Receiving AESA Radars for Cruise Missile Defense

The first four-ship formation of F-16s equipped with Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radars fly over Eglin Air Force Base on July 2nd (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The Northrop Grumman [NOC] AN/APG-83 scalable agile beam radar (SABR) for U.S. Air Force F-16 fighters by Lockheed Martin [LMT] is to provide 5th generation radar features akin to those of the F-22 and F-35 for the legacy fighter, which first flew in 1974. Such new, Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) features include beyond line of sight, longer range air-to-air and air-to-ground targeting of multiple targets, such as air defense radars and cruise/surface to air missiles, and all-weather, high-resolution, synthetic…

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