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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

F-16 Radar Upgrade Competition Heats Up Between Northrop, Raytheon

F-16 Fighting Falcon |Delays in the development and fielding of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter have underscored the need for the U.S. military and its allies to keep current jets technologically relevant.

It has not been decided whether the U.S. Air Force will outfit about 300 F-16s with Northrop Grumman’s Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) or Raytheon’s Advanced Combat Radar (RACR).

Both are capability upgrades from existing systems that give pilots much greater image resolution and target recognition.

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