Iraq contracts on American radars suitable to work with the F-16 aircraft

Pentagon awarded a contract to manufacture 22 U.S. radar for F-16 aircraft contracted by Iraq

Author: HAA
Editor: BK, NK 06.11.2013 18:54

Range Press / Baghdad

Detection and the U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon), on Tuesday, it awarded the contract External sales to supply Iraq with 22 sophisticated radar system placed in the F-16 aircraft is expected to begin Iraq receipt of the end of the year, expected to equip the deal the end of next year, 2017.

The Pentagon said in a statement issued today, and seen by (range Press), he was given the "Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman's Electronic Industries contract External sales to supply Iraq with 22 radar system aircraft AN/APG-68 V9 airborne total of 38 system," And that "the manufacturing process will be at the company's headquarters in Anciom Heights, Maryland U.S.," expected to "complete the deal in the (20 December 2017)."

The Pentagon, in a statement, that "the total amount of contracts to provide radars and spare parts for other countries, including Iraq, amounted to $ 115 million," adding that "including 16 radar system for the Air Force, Thai and spare parts for the Air Force Egyptian, Moroccan, Pakistani," but did not specify Iraqi value of the deal, which amount appears to be the largest of those contracts.

The ministry said the U.S., according to the statement, that "the contract required the company received almost half of the total value of $ 51449989 when hiring."

The radar system AN/APG-68 V9 airborne, aircraft used in the F-16, this system provides outstanding combat capabilities of the aircraft, as it gives this radar warning signals to target 30 miles away, as if the MiG-sized, can also detect whether was carrying weapons or they are equipped with fuel tanks only.

The Minister of Defense agency, Saadoun al-Dulaimi, said in an interview to the (Presse term), in (third from June 2013), that Iraq will receive the first meal of the F-16 aircraft the U.S. end of the current year 2013.

Iraq had signed an agreement with Washington to buy 36 fighter aircraft F-16, has announced that the Iraqi government (September 2011), the payment of the first installment of the value of the deal price to buy 18 fighter of this kind, as confirmed by the Ministry of Defense, in (third from July 2012 the past), the Iraqi government's desire to increase the number of aircraft in the "near future" to protect the country's airspace.

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