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Turkey to upgrade 117 F-16s
Apr 27, 2005 - The governments of the United States and Turkey signed a Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) for the systems upgrade of Turkish F-16s at an estimated total value of $1.1 billion. [Read more...]
JASSM successful in flight test
Mar 05, 2005 - A Lockheed Martin Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM), the world's first stealthy cruise missile, was successfully launched Thursday from an F-16 aircraft and precisely navigated through its first verification flight test at White Sands Missile Range, NM. [Read more...]
Brazil cancels jet fighter upgrade plans
Feb 26, 2005 - Brazil canceled its plans to spend $700 million on at least 12 new fighter jets to upgrade its air force. This is a blow for Lockheed who offered 12 F-16 Fighting Falcons. [Read more...]
Hill fixes damaged Egyptian aircraft
Feb 03, 2005 - A severely damaged Egyptian F-16 will soon return to its home country, in next-to-new condition, after undergoing a complicated four-year overhaul by a team of specialized aircraft repair experts here. [Read more...]
US plans sale of 50 AIM-120C missiles to Jordan
Nov 24, 2004 - The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) plans to sell Jordan 50 U.S.-made AMRAAM anti-aircraft missiles in a deal valued up to $39 million. The Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress last Friday about the proposed sale, giving lawmakers 30 days to block the agreement. [Read more...]
Lockheed Martin to provide upgrade kits for Jordan F-16s
Oct 22, 2004 - Lockheed Martin received a $87 million contract to support upgrades to 17 F-16 A/Bs of the Royal Jordanian Air Force. The main upgrade is the F16 A/B Mid-Life Update (MLU), essentially the same as being performed on 400 F-16s operated by the five European Participating Air Forces (EPAF). [Read more...]
EDO corporation awarded contract for 34 BRU-57s
Mar 24, 2004 - EDO Corporation has been awarded a $6.3 million "Foreign Military Sale" contract for 34 production-phase BRU-57 bomb-release units on F-16 aircraft. Deliveries are expected to be completed by 2006. [Read more...]
Quality control by the 514th Flight Test Squadron, Hill AFB
Mar 19, 2004 - They take great care not to be identified with test pilots and their immortal images, burned into our brains from movies like "The Right Stuff." But if they didn't have great faith in Hill AFB's maintainers, they could consider their job just as dangerous. [Read more...]
Mountain protects Taiwanese F-16s
Feb 17, 2004 - Taiwan now has a hangar inside a mountainside capable of protecting up to 100 F-16 and Mirage fighter jets, and it now also has upgraded early-warning radar systems. [Read more...]
Elbit Systems wins US Air Force contract
Feb 10, 2004 - Elbit Systems announced that its wholly owned subsidiary EFW Inc. of Fort Worth, Texas, had been awarded a $32.6 million firm fixed price contract by the US Air Force's Ogden Air Logistics Center to provide Common Data Entry Electronics Units (CDEEU). [Read more...]
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