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World Aviation Defense & Security Industry News - Lockheed Martin
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Lockheed won a $914mn contract to upgrade Singapore's F-16 fighters fleet
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The US-based defense giant Lockheed Martin will update Singapore’s F-16 fleet under a $914 million sole-source contract as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s foreign military sales program, the US Department of Defense announced yesterday. Lockheed Martin company will perform work in Texas through June 30, 2023, said the US DoD.
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 RSAF F-16C block 52 fighter aircraft |
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Singapore's Ministry of Defense didn't give additional precisions to this announcement, but it said it planned to fit the aircraft with active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar and more advanced avionics to enhance its all-weather, ground attack capability.
In May 2015, the Government of Singapore has requested in a possible $130 mn sale for the upgrade of 60 F-16C/D/D+ aircraft. Items included in the proposed sale were 50 Joint Helmet-Mounted Cueing System, 90 AN/APX-126 Advanced Identification Friend or Foe Interrogator/Transponders, 150 LAU-129 Missile Launchers, 12 LN-260 Embedded Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation Systems (GPS/INS), 20 GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bombs (SDB), 92 Link-16 Multifunctional Information Distribution System/ Low Volume Terminals (MIDS/LVT). The Republic of Singapore Air Force operates a fleet of around 60 Lockheed Martin F-16 combat aircraft and has flown them since 1988. |
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