F-16 ES Enhanced Strategic

F-16 ES
Enhanced Strategic

Proposed to extend the range of F - 16ES (Enhanced Strategy) version of the Fighting Falcon was originally developed for the Israeli strike fighter. In order to increase the fuel tanks, conformal, which is £ 3,200 of fuel will be installed together with the 320's tank and two 600 - Gal tanks underwing, F - 16ES radius mission unrefueled of 1025 miles. bear the burden of the strike of the two £ 2,000 - bombs and missiles for the four - to - air, which represents an increase of 40% in the range of the block, U.S. the air Force's 50 F - 16C, and is roughly equivalent to that of F -. 15E to this project, however, lost out to Lockheed Strike Eagle McDonnell Douglas in the race.



There is also a fuel tank, conformal, F - 16ES also features the forward-infrared (FLIR), which generally are not capable of navigation and the LANTIRN targeting without the drag associated with the sheath. external Following the loss of the war of Israel against the F - 15I Strike Eagle (the export to Israel of F - 15E), and Lockheed has raised the following expression. interest by several other Gulf countries, Lockheed protected F - 16 to 60 (sometimes referred to as F - 16U) to the United Arab Emirates. This will include conformal fuel tanks and the FLIR.Flight testing.
Lockheed Martin Ft Worth Co. began flight testing on the block for 30 F - 16C (# 83-1120 ED) with a shape that is representative of the conformal tanks, FLIR turret, and one of the two parties (the lower turret. ) aircraft will make its first flight on November 5, 1994, and has completed a test flight in January 1995 of the Flight Test 21 was conducted after the program to rapid prototyping to gather information about the aerodynamic exterior. F - 16ES Seventeen flights were focused on the evaluation of the handling characteristics of the aircraft with two conformal fuel tanks 24 feet, according to these tests, resistance to travel. recoverability. Changes seem minimal. The remaining four tests focusing on the impact on the flow of air flowing in and the engine of the turret ball over for a nose, installed inside the FLIR F - 16ES also has a turret ball on the system. The FLIR will be evaluated in earlier programs.