Air Force upgrades F-16 radar

The Air Force has selected Northrop Grumman's APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar as its upgrade for the active electronically scanned array radars on National Guard F-16 fighter jets.

Northrop Grumman will upgrade 72 U.S. Air National Guard F-16s "to meet a U.S. Northern Command Joint Emergent Operational Need for homeland defense," according to a company news release.

The APG-83 SABR has greater bandwidth speed and agility, Northrop Grumman said. "In addition, the radar can operate in hostile electronic environments and features all-weather, high-resolution synthetic aperture radar mapping, which presents the pilot with a large surface image enabling precision target identification and strike," the company added.

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