Integration of national AESA radar to F-16s will start in 2022

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At the Defense and Technology Days organized by ITU SAVTEK, ASELSAN Radar Systems Director Muhammet Mustafa Akkul said, "In 2022, we will start the integration studies of the national Active Phased Array Antenna (AESA) radar to the F-16s".

AESA radars are a type of Phased Array Radar that functions as transmitters and receivers with many small solid-state receiver/transmitter modules. These radars direct their beams by emitting radio waves separate from each module on them, creating constructive interference in front of the antenna. Advanced active electronic scanning array radars allow them to emit waves in a wider frequency range than Electronic Scanning Passive Arrays (PESA), thus making them difficult to detect through background noise. In this way, ships and aircraft can remain more hidden even if they emit strong radar signals.

Milli AESA radarın F-16'lara entegrasyon çalışmaları 2022 yılında başlayacak - M5 Dergi

İTÜ SAVTEK tarafından gerçekleştirilen Savunma ve Teknoloji Günlerine katılan ASELSAN Radar Sistemleri Direktörü Muhammet Mustafa Akkul, “2022’de milli Aktif Faz Dizili Anten (AESA) radarın F-16’lara entegrasyon çalışmalarına başlamış olacağız” dedi. AESA radarlar, birçok küçük katı-hal...

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[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Do they need American permission? Israel was not allowed to put EL/M-2052 AESA in their F-16I because US did not allow.

EL/M-2052 - Wikipedia

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In any event, Turkey will need AESA in their F-16 to counter Greek Rafale which has AESA. US forbids Turkey upgrade F-16C to F-16V standard which has AESA.

 

[nomi007]

Question is will USA allow or not
than why Turkey is using its F-16s platform as a testbed for local BVR missiles?

 

[Philip the Arab]

Question is will USA allow or not
than why Turkey is using its F-16s platform as a testbed for local BVR missiles?View attachment 728023

UAE needs to integrate future missiles on their F-16Es.

 

[khanasifm]

Do they need American permission? Israel was not allowed to put EL/M-2052 AESA in their F-16I because US did not allow.

EL/M-2052 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

In any event, Turkey will need AESA in their F-16 to counter Greek Rafale which has AESA. US forbids Turkey upgrade F-16C to F-16V standard which has AESA.

Korean were also not allowed to put aesa on ka-50 even though it’s exclusive Korean and LM joint project

Under current circumstance turkey can forget anything from EU and USA

Few exceptions Italy

 

[Oublious]

Lol, we will upgrade our F16 with out permission of America. And we fire missiles with out American permission. our SOM missile as example.

 

[Philip the Arab]

Lol, we will upgrade our F16 with out permission of America. And we fire missiles with out American permission. our SOM missile as example.

Can you prove you don't have American permission?

 

[eagleeye]

I think we have the source code for Block 30/40 .we have already integrated our mission computer and avionics during the Özgür upgrade

 

[Oublious]

Can you prove you don't have American permission?

Why should i prove something doesn't exist? Japan did upgrade, Israel did ther own upgrade. Only dumb people on the internet are making stories. We are using our own ASELPOD flir system and we will use our own EW systems.

 

[nomi007]

UAE needs to integrate future missiles on their F-16Es.

They are already using South African air-to-ground weapon on their F-16s.
a local variant is called
I think takbir.

 

[Philip the Arab]

They are already using South African air-to-ground weapon on their F-16s.
a local variant is called
I think takbir.

Its name is Tariq, but they have more made by South africans directly being developed. No middle man directly they just hired engineers that worked there.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

"In 2022, we will start the integration studies of the national Active Phased Array Antenna (AESA) radar to the F-16s".

Integration studies, not integration. Actual integration will probably be around 2030 if everything goes well.

 

[DHSquare]

Integration studies, not integration. Actual integration will probably be around 2030 if everything goes well.

Not really coz by 2030 the f16 fleet will b on the verge of retirement incrementally in next few years so wasting a good part of a decade on integration of radar on a platform that's bout to retire doesn't make sense at all. Timelines will definitely b earlier then.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Not really coz by 2030 the f16 fleet will b on the verge of retirement incrementally in next few years so wasting a good part of a decade on integration of radar on a platform that's bout to retire doesn't make sense at all. Timelines will definitely b earlier then.

It may be worthwhile for Turkey to try make a mechanical scanning F-16 radar first before trying to make AESA F-16 radar.

 

[Aasimkhan]

Integration studies, not integration. Actual integration will probably be around 2030 if everything goes well.

It means Pakistan's JF17 Block 3 will be more capable than most of the F16s which are not upgraded with AESA. This means our JF17 Block 3 will have a very bright future in the market.