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Lockheed awarded $1.2 billion for Korean F-16 upgrades 2016-11-23 07:09:10 Post No. 32089958
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Lockheed awarded $1.2 billion for Korean F-16 upgrades 2016-11-23 07:09:10 Post No. 32089958
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Lockheed awarded $1.2 billion for Korean F-16 upgrades
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2016-11-23 07:09:10
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https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/lockheed-awarded-12-billion-for-korean-f-16-upgra-431685/
After a lengthy negotiating process, the South Korean government awarded a $1.2 billion contract to upgrade 134 Lockheed Martin F-16C/Ds to the F-16V standard, the US Department of Defense announced on 18 November.
The award comes more 16 months after the US State Department cleared South Korea to purchase the upgrade package, which includes the Northrop Grumman APG-81 Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR), new modular mission computers, upgraded electronic warfare suites and second generation joint helmet mounted cueing systems.
The finalized deal comes as a coup for Lockheed, which snatched the contract last year from BAE Systems and radar supplier, Raytheon, following a cost dispute. In 2012, BAE won the upgrade contract over original F-16 manufacturer Lockheed Martin.
But BAE’s true costs surprised Seoul, when the US government demanded an additional W500 billion ($473 million) and BAE asked for W300 billion.
Lockheed will upgrade one single-seat C-model and one twin-seat D model KF-16 to the latest version configuration, the F-16V, before moving onto the remaining 132 aircraft, FlightGlobal previously reported.
Those two fighters were delivered to the US after BAE’s selection fell through.
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>4th gen
Wow it's fucking nothing, we're on 5th gen now kiddo
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>>32090011
After the radars will be upgraded in the future, " Stealth" will become obsolete.
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>>32090512
>The stealth is binary meme
Even if the detection range advantages of radar low observable aircraft are eroded, with the range of BVR weapons coming into service getting ever longer, it is likely that there will be enough of an advantage will remain that a stealthy aircraft will be able to fire on a non-stealthy aircraft first. Especially since stealth & EW against radar systems technology will also be improved over the same time-frame.
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>>32090512
We have been hearing this for like 40 years.
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>F-16
Eaten up by Chinese AAM at 3 times the stand-off range..
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>>32090512
Stealth doesnt work like it does in Command and conquer games kid. Its not a on/off button
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>>32089958
Of note is the price of this upgrade. $90 mil a pop, roughly
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>>32091597
t. 50 yuan
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>>32091597
So is China's strategy just used ballistic missiles for everything? Nuclear, Anti-ship and Anti-Air so far. Are they going to say they've developed ASubBMs next?
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>>32091597
This is anti-AWACS.
And unproven. Might as well say the US could down it with LASERS AND RAILGUNS because those exist.
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>>32092762
Or just jam the shit out of them.
And it probably has a big enough launch plume for EO-DAS to pick up well inside it's effective range.
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>>32092649
Yes.
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>>32094112
That seems a bit expensive and pointless if you already have ASW aircraft that can just drop torpedoes.
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>>32089958
>But BAE’s true costs surprised Seoul, when the US government demanded an additional W500 billion ($473 million) and BAE asked for W300 billion.
Wait, unclear on this - the US government asked for more money since BAE was working on it rather than a US company?
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