Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon Developments

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F-16 Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite (IVEWS) | Northrop Grumman

The AN/ALQ-257 Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite (IVEWS) is designed to give F-16 electronic warfare (EW) capabilities on a par with fifth-generation aircraft, significantly enhancing survivability for operations in contested and congested electromagnetic spectrum environments.
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Forest Green said:
Fores - an oil&gas sector company - figures, they must be getting desperate, another bad day for that sector today.
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Now that makes sense given how much success in the last few months Ukraine has had in damaging and destroying oil-refineries and storage depots, they figure that once the Ukrainians have more F-16s they'll start going on the offensive targeting more oil-refineries.
 
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Northrop Grumman Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite Cleared for Flight Testing

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. – Sept. 4, 2024 – Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE: NOC) AN/ALQ-257 Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite (IVEWS) has completed U.S. Air Force testing in the service’s Joint Preflight Integration of Munitions and Electronic...
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New F-16 Electronic Warfare System Enters Flight Test

The F-16's new electronic warfare system, the IVEWS made by Northrop Grumman, has begun flight testing, the company said.
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aonestudio said:
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Northrop Grumman Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite Cleared for Flight Testing

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. – Sept. 4, 2024 – Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE: NOC) AN/ALQ-257 Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite (IVEWS) has completed U.S. Air Force testing in the service’s Joint Preflight Integration of Munitions and Electronic...
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New F-16 Electronic Warfare System Enters Flight Test

The F-16's new electronic warfare system, the IVEWS made by Northrop Grumman, has begun flight testing, the company said.
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Here's a summary:
The IVEWS will be internal to the F-16 and will replace the centerline-mounted AN/ALQ-131 self-defense jamming pod, freeing one external station on the fighter for a fuel tank or weapon. The system will use antennas located elsewhere on the fuselage; the outer mold line of the aircraft hasn’t been altered, Conroy said.
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The IVEWS is intended to provide the F-16 with electronic warfare capabilities “on a par with fifth-generation aircraft, significantly enhancing survivability for operations in contested and congested electromagnetic spectrum environments,” Northrop said. “Its ultra-wideband suite can detect, identify, and counter advanced radio frequency threats, including millimeter wave systems.”
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Conroy said the system will be especially helpful in coping with mobile anti-aircraft radars and missiles whose position is unknown at the start of a mission and which may turn on and fire on F-16s when directly overhead or nearby.
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Conroy said the system could permit the F-16 to remain credible into the 2040s, and is being evaluated by a number of F-16 user countries, particularly those buying the F-16 Block 70. Turkey has signed a letter of agreement selecting the IVEWS for its Block 70s.
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aonestudio said:
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Aggressor F-16 Fleet Set To Be Slashed By Air Force

Planned cuts to F-16s at Nellis Air Force Base point to a looming aggressor gap and raise questions about the Viper fleet's overall health.
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I expect the USAF is looking this way, https://www.flightglobal.com/milita...e-in-autonomous-aggressor-role/159438.article

That was also the original intention of Blue Force Technologies before Andruil bought them, to market the Fury as an aggressor aircraft. I expect a LO CCA type has such a significant cost reduction for aggressor work, while also being able to achieve some LO, that it is compelling for the USAF. Doesn't solve the impending issue of not enough manned aggressor aircraft.
 
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Ozair said:
I expect the USAF is looking this way, https://www.flightglobal.com/milita...e-in-autonomous-aggressor-role/159438.article

That was also the original intention of Blue Force Technologies before Andruil bought them, to market the Fury as an aggressor aircraft. I expect a LO CCA type has such a significant cost reduction for aggressor work, while also being able to achieve some LO, that it is compelling for the USAF. Doesn't solve the impending issue of not enough manned aggressor aircraft.
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They also have the likes of ATAC offering Aggressor services.
 
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Forest Green said:
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Poland’s F-16s Cleared For Major Upgrades

Polish F-16s are already among the most advanced in NATO, but a new upgrade package will make them far more potent. Polish F-16s are already among the most advanced in NATO, but a new upgrade package will make them far more potent.
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Given Poland's immediate neighbour Belarus and further east (Russia) this doesn't surprise me at all. The F-16V upgrade will definitely make the Polish F-16s a great deal more capable than they already are with the Northrop Grumman AN/APG-83 for example will add a great deal more and I wonder how much it could be used for ECM purposes for example. Given commonality between the F-16V and F-35 avionics this F-16 MLU will apparently also help Poland to ease in its new F-35s as they are delivered (No doubt helping the ground crews to familiarise themselves with the much more sophisticated F-35 when it arrives).

On another note I wonder if after the F-16V upgrade the Polish F-16s will be wired to carry special-stores, the B61 Mod 12 in particular?
 
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First Bulgarian Block 70 takes flight:
Lockheed Martin [...] today announced the successful flight of the first Bulgarian F-16 Block 70. 
The flight occurred Oct. 22 at 9:30 a.m. EDT at Lockheed Martin’s production facility in Greenville, South Carolina, with test pilot Charles "Seeker" Hoag successfully conducting multiple system tests to validate performance and supersonic capabilities during the flight.
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Lockheed Martin Announces Successful Flight of First Bulgarian F-16 Block 70 Aircraft

GREENVILLE, S.C, Oct. 24, 2024 – Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] today announced the successful flight of the first Bulgarian F-16 Block 70. The flight occurred Oct. 22 at 9:30 a.m. EDT at Lockheed...
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EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – An F-16 Fighting Falcon assigned to the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron flew the first Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite (IVEWS) flight here last month.

IVEWS is a self-protecting electronic warfare (EW) system on the F-16 that provides digital radar warnings and active jamming capability to detect, identify, locate, and counter potential threats.
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85th TES flies new F-16 electronic warfare suite

IVEWS takes flight at Eglin AFB.
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