Although no source has been shown so far, there is probably a contractual non tampering clause in the purchase of F16s for 30 years. Same contract would also cover non-sellability of the planes to third parties without US consent. Heck! Even Israel couldn’t sell their old planes to Croatia..
Haha, just realised that the research paper is Greek. I even know one of the guys who made the paper as he is pretty active in a Greek news site comment section.
www.researchgate.net
www.researchgate.net
www.researchgate.net
Will we see the additional tank canister above the wings?Turkiye can and will upgrade all of its F-16s. Other than the AESA radar everything is currently ready. The prototype fighter is actively flying and qualified with Özgür modernization package other than the radar. That is said multiple times by the president of the SSB. So why Turkiye asks for viper mod? Because it is political. Turkiye doesn't want to leave the table first when dealing with the US. We know viper deal will be rejected by the congress so Americans will have no excuse to say anything when we move on our own. We will show their double standarst, again, to the whole world and when the time comes we will say dude we did everything we could you guys rejected us not the other way around.
Turkish modernization is better than the Viper Mod because of its new GaN based radar. APG-83 SABR is not a good radar at all.
This is written by the officers of Hellenic Air Force Academy.
Direct Quote from the Paper.
This is the end result. APG-83 is only slightly better than APG-68(V)9 and loses some performance at some angles.
Aselsan is designing a new cooling system and a new power delivery system for its GaN-based F-16 radar. That means we will push more power to the radar via the more efficient GaN TRM modules. Aselsan radar is expected to have "at least" %50 more range against fighter-sized targets than APG-83. EW resistance is the biggest gain going from APG-68(V)9 to APG-83.
No. No conformal fuel tanks are planned. The plan is to acquire additional tankers for the tanker fleet.
About a year ago, one of these things flew right above my house in the middle of the night. To be clear, it wasn’t at the beginning of a take off or something. Still, the entire house shook as if there was a strong earthquake. It was so loud, I couldn’t even understand whether it was an air raid or a passenger airplane. I had to check Flightradar twice to make sure that we’re not under attack.
Like Antanov?
Maybe
About a year ago, one of these things flew right above my house in the middle of the night. To be clear, it wasn’t at the beginning of a take off or something. Still, the entire house shook as if there was a strong earthquake. It was so loud, I couldn’t even understand whether it was an air raid or a passenger airplane. I had to check Flightradar twice to make sure that we’re not under attack.
The engines of that thing are incredible. I truly wish we could buy more. After such an experience, I fet that, as a taxpayer, these things are worth every penny. I’ve hears and stood next to a lot of different aircraft, but the A400M is a different beast. I’m just glad that we didn’t cheap out on these.
There are rumours that we might get some. Conversions from THY fleet to be specific. According to the rumours we will convert 7 of them to MRTT spec in order to replace our KC-135Rs.
