Northrop Grumman Has a Plan to Keep the F-16 (Fighting) For Years to Come

Northrop Grumman Has a Plan to Keep the F-16 'Fighting' For Years to Come Northrop Grumman’s AN/APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) upgrade for Lockheed Martin’s F-16 Fighting Falcon is promising to keep the venerable fighter viable as a warplane for years to come. The new active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar fighter aircraftwas recently selected by the U.S. Air Force to upgrade an initial batch of its F-16s. The Pentagon order opens the door to further domestic and international order for SABR. The complicating factors for Northrop are that there are rival F-16 upgrade products on the market including Raytheon’s AN/APG-84 Raytheon Advanced Combat Radar (RACR) and the limited budgets available to governments around the world.