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US Air Force F-16 fitted with IVEWS approaches flight tests

18th July 2024 - 21:15 GMT | by Flavia Camargos Pereira in Kansas City

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The USAF has been operating F-16s since the 1980s. (Photo: US Air Force)

Trials conducted at the US Air Force J-PRIMES enabled the solution to reach the skies in a couple of weeks.

The US Air Force (USAF) is set to start flight tests with the F-16 multirole fighter fitted with Northrop Grumman AN/ALQ-257 Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite (IVEWS) after the solution completed trials at the Joint Preflight Integration of Munitions and Electronic Sensors (J-PRIMES) facility.

James Conroy, senior VP of EW and targeting at Northrop Grumman, told Shephard that it was “going into flight in the next couple of weeks”.

Within J-PRIMES, the effectiveness and performance of the AN/ALQ-257 were assessed in an anechoic chamber. The system was added to a full-scale surrogate F-16 in order to evaluate its compatibility and

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Flavia Camargos Pereira is a North America editor at Shephard Media. She joined the company …

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