Re: Pakistan Airforce News and Discussions
SABRE said:
I have a limited knowledge so no point testing it....not much difference between Block 50/52 (C/D) & Block 60 (E/F) on the basis of weapons systems I think...in avionics Block 60 has better range, better radar (hence better range of radar). It has two extarnal Fuel Tanks so more fuel capacity. The difference is such that if u put same AESA Radar on Block 52+ u'll have almost the same aircraft except for the range. I could be wrong though.
The F-16 expert I believe is "highsea"...he is a mod here. Either PM him to reply here or reply back to u in PM or wait till he visits the thread. Other wise GF is also there he can tell u alot.
The Block 60 is 60 percent differnt from the Block 50 USAF, incremental development first 30 percent for the Greek batch and the second for the Israeli, so the Block 60 is technically clos to the Israeli Suffa. the Dorsal spine is required if you want the APG-80 AESA radar. its liquid cooled since it reuirs cooling. the Block 60 uses Fiber distributed Chennels instead of the553B databus. which means Data is trasmitted from one section to the other useing two fiber optic cables. The fiber optics allows federated boxes to communicate and provide the same benefit as the F/A-22's integrated avionics. The same technology is used in the Joint Strike Fighter.
The new digital flight-control system uses the same F-16 control laws, rewitten from Jovial into C++ and rehosted on to commercial processors(PowerPC architecture (Motorola)). The basic structure of the software has been changed to add the advanced autopilot and enhanced safety modes.
Half of the structural changes in the Block 60 are for increased strength, and half are for systems installation and routing. Changes include thicker bulkheads, stronger aluminium-lithium skins and unitised structures.
Compared with the USAF-standard F-16C/D Block 50, at least 70% of the structure is changed; the core avionics are new, as are the active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, integrated forward-looking infrared and targeting system (IFTS) and electronic-warfare (EW) suite; and the cockpit and fly-by-wire flight controls are significantly enhanced. Compared with the original F-16A/B, maximum take-off weight is increased by 50% to 22,700kg (50,000lb) and engine thrust by 35% to 32,500lb (145kN).
There will be three standards 0 , 1 , 2, 3 the Three is where the Weapon system will be in the final delivery stages. the 0 is where the three prototypes would be handed over to UAEAF for pilot training and this is where the Testing system would be kept while the main gun would be missing. Standard 1 provides capabilities equivalent to the Block 50 F-16: Standards 2 and 3 are software-only upgrades that will be performed in-country. The breakthrough capabilities hit the aircraft with Standard 2. autoflight modes - terrain following will come in with Standard 2, for example - and datalink functions.
design work on the pilot-vehicle interface through to Standard 3 has been completed and the full operational capability demonstrated in the simulator. Flight International was able to preview some of the capabilities planned for the Block 60 in the simulator at Fort Worth. These include safety-enhancing features such as automatic recovery from deep stall and automatic ground collision avoidance.
Possibly the biggest change in the Block 60 from earlier F-16s is in the core avionics and flight controls, in which the unique military processors are replaced with commercial PowerPCs. There are 1.3 million lines of new software. Existing F-16 mission computer and flight control software has been rewitten from Ada and Jovial into the C++ commercial high-order language, then built on to provide the additional capabilities of the Block 60.
. f-16, JF-17 and the mistery jet where getting would be the molti-role dudes.
