It could still always be added as an event or GE prem aircraft…
Internet says it’s for ALQ-211 ECM.
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Lol, it’s half a tonne heavier. In return it gains a full tonne of power.
Why don’t they put 132 to planes other than Block 60?
money.
Or TAC. IIRC new batches of 229 are actually detuned parts from 232 to increase lifespnan.
I wonder how heavy is GE132 itself?
GE129 is already 1800kg on F-16 airframe
Lol, are you new to America’s military industry?
GE’s -132 only hit service because it was another country funding its production.
-229s don’t use any parts from the -232, lifespan sits at a pretty firm 6k TAC thanks to pretty much everything being slightly remanufactured.
The most significant change I can think of comes down to the augmentor, which pushed almost a 70% increase in lifespan.
That’s still just a depo interval, you might as well have to rebuild the entire engine 10 times over before it’ll come to that… At least with the way my unit flies them.
Jhmcs 2 footage
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Does anyone know if ALR-69A(V) provide 360 rwr in both x and y plane?
AFAIK no major antenna upgrade was made to F-16s with ALR-69A RWR, so probably there might still be blind spots.
Are the F-16 block 50/52 being upgraded to block 70/72 refered to as F-16v or F-16 PoBIT?
PoBIT
And the only difference is the RWR and engine between V and PoBIT right?
RWR yes, but engine is a block number thing not a V or PoBIT thing
If foreign nations are doing it with the use of the Block 70/72 upgrade kits from Lockheed-Martin then F-16V Block 70/72. But with the US then it’s F-16C PoBIT.
IIRC there are differences on EW suites between USAF PoBIT and foreign 16Vs.
USAF uses AN/ALQ-257 while foreign ones use AN/ALQ-254.