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Israel completes new upgrade on first F-16
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| 30/11/10
| Arie Egozi
Posted on 11/30/2010 8:38:54 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Israel completes new upgrade on first F-16
By Arie Egozi
The Israeli air force has completed work to upgrade its first Lockheed Martin F-16C/D to the "Barak 2020" configuration. The programme involves equipping the strike aircraft with a new head-up display, digital debriefing system and other undisclosed capability enhancements.
Modifications are being performed at the squadron level, under the supervision of the air force's main technical unit number 22 - its central maintenance depot.
Further work will be conducted to upgrade simulators for the F-16C/D to incorporate the new systems.
Israel's air force plans to phase out its F-16A/Bs in the coming years and has no current plans to upgrade their systems. However, any delay to the delivery of the service's first Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters could affect the pace of their retirement.
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aerospace; f16; iaf; israel
To: sukhoi-30mki
The “Barak 2020” edition? Hoo boy. Must .... refrain .... from..... dirt......nap..... references.
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posted on
11/30/2010 8:56:09 AM PST
by
MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
To: MarineBrat
Dang.... couldn’t refrain!
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posted on
11/30/2010 8:56:45 AM PST
by
MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
To: MarineBrat
They forgot the “C” in Barack...
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posted on
11/30/2010 9:09:45 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: MarineBrat
Israel is just getting ready for the battle of Armageddon during the Barakolypse.
To: Yo-Yo
They forgot the “C” in Barack...
No, they didn't. "Barak" means lightening in Hebrew. Teh Hebrew equivalent of "Barack" is "baruch". Semitic roots are 3 letter but tranliteration makes this difficult to see.
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posted on
11/30/2010 10:01:02 AM PST
by
rmlew
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To: sukhoi-30mki
That’s some sweet tail art there as well...
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posted on
11/30/2010 10:05:12 AM PST
by
steveyp
To: sukhoi-30mki
I'm quite ignorant about most military ordnance, so correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the F16 nuclear armament delivery-capable?
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posted on
11/30/2010 10:18:43 AM PST
by
The Comedian
(Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
To: The Comedian
Here's the panel from an F-16 block 50/52:
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posted on
11/30/2010 11:33:23 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: MarineBrat
It means “lightning”.. Arabic as inn Barack Hussein 0bama, has purloined bits of the language..
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posted on
11/30/2010 11:47:00 AM PST
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: Yo-Yo
Well that answers my question rather dramatically in the affirmative.
Any idea what nuclear kilo or megatonnage the Falcon can deliver? Can it carry Tomahawks aloft, for example?
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posted on
11/30/2010 12:13:02 PM PST
by
The Comedian
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posted on
11/30/2010 5:07:22 PM PST
by
SJackson
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To: The Comedian
A Tomahawk could be carried and launched by an F-16. The coolest thing about the nuclear equipped Tomahawk is that it carries, IIRC, the W-88 warhead with it's nifty "Dial A Yield" feature.
It can be set to go from a relatively small 50 kt blast all the way up to 250kt. This is all from memory so my numbers may be wrong.
L
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posted on
11/30/2010 5:11:33 PM PST
by
Lurker
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To: Lurker
It can be set to go from a relatively small 50 kt blast all the way up to 250kt. This is all from memory so my numbers may be wrong. Excellent data, thanks bro.
I sure hope Israel dials that baby up to 11.
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Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
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posted on
11/30/2010 5:38:45 PM PST
by
The Comedian
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