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tmc
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 Posted: Mar 04, 2013 - 10:25 PM
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| New to the site and forum as a result of a job switch and had a question regarding "heavy" vs "light" landing gear. Both the South Korea and Republic of China have contracted for avionics upgrades; none of the literature I have seen surrounding these efforts discusses the landing gear requirements. Do the landing gear or related components need to be retrofitted or accommodated to support either initiative? |
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Posted: Mar 05, 2013 - 12:36 AM
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In those specific cases I don't believe so.
IIRC, the ROK jets are Block 52s anyway which should already have the heavy-weight gear. The ROC jets are essentially factory-built A/B model MLUs with a lot of Block 5X commonality. So chances are they too have a heavy-weight gear. Any upgrade to either prolly won't require a gear change. |
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Posted: Mar 05, 2013 - 01:56 AM
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Taiwan jets do NOT currently have heavy weight gear.
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neurotech
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Posted: Mar 05, 2013 - 05:33 AM
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I vaguely remember johnwill (retired General Dynamics flight structural engineer) commenting on this, and correcting me with regard to which block was which.
The F-16C structural changes didn't come until later blocks. The F-16 Block 40s had stronger and lengthened undercarriage to support LANTIRN pods and other enhancements.
@Link16Simdude: The Taiwanese jets were built as F-16A 20s but basically the same structurally and avionics wise a F-16C Block 25. The MLU jets were built as F-16A Block 5/10/15 but the structural changes found in the F-16C Block 25s were not made to those jets. |
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tmc
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Posted: Mar 07, 2013 - 03:52 PM
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| Thanks to all for your responses. |
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