F-16X The Tailless Fighter

F-16X
The Tailless Fighter

Lockheed Martin Tactical Systems Aircaft proposed an improved version of the F - 16, F - 16X, a multirole fighter to the U.S. Air Force. It will depend on whether the new wing of the F - 22 and the vertical tail. It will have two sessions of the F/A-18E/F, the two-thirds of the cost.



Interim improvements to the F - 16X may be introduced on the F - 16C / D Block 50 aircraft plus the mixed color of cockpit lighting, artificial terrain reference navigation systems, radar and missile warning systems after the latency. Block 60 aircraft will be within the LANTIRN system, APU and fuel within the spinal cord.
Production of F - 16X to about 2010 if it has ever been before.
LMTAS studied recently for the launch of NASA research aircraft F - 16XL to demonstrate there is no tail. However, there are plans to implement the changes due to lack of funds.Studies to determine the vertical tail and the direction by the engine. thrustvectoring and a new wing and wingtips, every movement, and higher rates of flaps leading edge of the wing will have more and swept planform triangle instead of F - 16XL planform cranked-arrow as an alternative low-cost engineers LMTAS yet. Keeping the wings of F - 16XL and the ailerons.
Of six months, $ 250,000, starting in the autumn of 1995, as NASA tried to find "X - plane" contenders. In many categories, including high-performance fighter aircraft. The benefits to be gained weight and reducing drag and stealthier low radar cross - section, is flexibility to meet the standards of the Battle of Lockheed Martin F - 16 regardless of the angle of attack.
F - 16 will be driven by thrust vectoring version of the Pratt & Whitney F100 - PW - 229 engines, which are now being used in NASA's F - 15 applications. It has a round head of the ordinary to achieve a vectoring.
ailerons designed F - 16XL was solved by the foot for 1-2, and the area outside the front of the hingeline.
Since LMTAS has been awarded a contract to develop F - 35 as a multirole fighter aircraft to the Air Force and its many partners to further development of this model is not expected anymore.