MilitaryTurkey Plans to Upgrade Its F-16 Cockpits in $259M Deal with Lockheed Turkey will upgrade the avionics and flight control systems in its fleet of F-16 fighters under a new agreement with Lockheed Martin recently greenlit by the U.S. State Department. The NATO ally…
MilitarySeven Years Ahead of Schedule, AGCAS is Ready to Keep F-35s Safe Off the Ground The F-35's automatic ground-collision avoidance system (AGCAS), originally scheduled for delivery in 2026, is being deployed seven years ahead of time. "This is a great day for the warfighter, as the…
CommercialWill Commercial Planes Learn to Automatically Avoid the Ground? A test pilot who worked on the F-16 and F-35’s automatic ground-collision avoidance system (AGCAS) predicts the system’s inclusion on commercial jets before too long, but major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) Boeing…
MilitaryF-35 AGCAS: Flying Itself out of Harm's Way “It takes three years to build a fighter jet; it takes 26 years to build a fighter pilot. I can give you the price of an F-35, but … You can't put…