F-16INNothing Compares

No Wonder All Other Fighter Aircraft Try To Compare Themselves to the F-16With proven performance, effectiveness, versatility, and sustainability, the F-16 rises above all others as the world’s best multi role fighter.

The F-16IN is designed exclusively to meet or exceed all of India’s Medium Multi Role Combat

Aircraft (MMRCA) requirements. Evolutionary integration of the most advanced technologies makes the

F-16IN the most advanced F-16 ever built. New capabilities – not yet available in other fighters – have

already been proven in actual combat by the F-16. It is easy to see why the world’s most successful multi

role fighter keeps getting better and best meets India’s long-term defense needs. By every measure, the right

choice for India is the F-16IN, the U.S. Air Force, and an industrial partnership with Lockheed Martin.

F-16INNothing Compares.

No Comparison: Safety, Reliability, and Maintainability

Safest, most reliable multi role fighter in U.S. Air Force history.The F-16 is the most reliable, maintainable, and safest multi role fighter in the world . . . based on more than 13 million flight hours in

peacetime and combat operations. Our support approach provides the lowest life-cycle cost, operates within the existing Indian Air Force

infrastructure, demonstrates greater than 99% flight mission reliability, and ensures greater than 86% aircraft availability (proven greater

than 90% in combat situations). The F-16 is highly supportable, with a 70% decrease in operations and support costs over legacy systems.

No Comparison: Combat and Operational Effectiveness

Most dominant warfighting capability in the region.The F-16 is the most operationally proven multi role fighter available today. It is proven with

the U.S. Air Force – and with many of the world’s finest air forces – through millions of flight

hours and under the full range of climatic conditions, operational environments, and support

requirements. It has extensive combat operations in 10 different countries, with hundreds of

thousands of combat sorties being flown in the Balkans, Middle East, and Southwest Asia. The

F-16 is the backbone fighter in these multi role operations, demonstrating unmatched lethality,

survivability, and supportability.

• More combat hours (over 400,000)

• More air-to-air victories (72–0)

• More flight hours (over 13 million)

• More combat missions flown (over 100,000 sorties)

• More ordnance delivered in combat (over 2,200,000 kg)

• Over 100 weapons certified in thousands of operational configurations

No Comparison: Performance to India’s Operational Requirements

Exemplary performance in all missions and key operational requirements.Actual combat experience drives the evolution of aero performance, high maneuverability, high

range/payload, and integration of advanced technology to create the most effective multi role

fighter available today. This includes avionics, sensors, and weapons with standoff and satellite-

guided weapon capability, active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, an internal

electronic warfare (EW) suite, and advanced navigation. These systems and technologies

combine to either meet or exceed all MMRCA requirements and provide extensive growth

capability for the future.

Nothing Compares BecauseNothing Can Compare

No Comparison: The Most Advanced Technology

The missionized twin-seat version of

the F-16IN fully integrates the advanced

weapons system and two-person crew,

increasing survivability and situational

awareness in high-workload environments.

Modern Avionics, Sensors, and System Capabilities

The F-16IN includes a full-color, all-digital glass cockpit with large displays; a powerful

high-speed mission computer; an enhanced high-thrust engine; a large weapon inventory

including the latest sophisticated weapons; an advanced sensor system; and advanced

survivability through reduced radio frequency, infrared, acoustic, and visual spectrum

signatures. The F-16 has extensive growth and flexibility that has allowed it to evolve and

remain the most capable, combat-proven multi role fighter in the world. Through robust

technology transfer, the Indian Air Force obtains the ability to adapt the F-16IN with new

capabilities, whether through technology advancements or new requirements.

Modern, Full-Color, All-Digital Glass Cockpit

The F-16IN pilot receives easy-to-interpret

information via the full-color, all-digital glass

cockpit. The powerful high-speed mission computer

has large displays, allowing reduced workload

and focus on the

mission, not the

mechanics.

Proven AESA Radar

The F-16IN APG-80 active electronically scanned array (AESA)

radar is fully developed, integrated, and operational. The APG-

80 is the only AESA deployed operationally outside the United

States. This revolutionary all-weather, precision targeting AESA

radar provides outstanding situational awareness and detection;

ultrahigh-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mapping,

fully interleaved with automatic terrain following; and air-to-air

tracking of multiple targets. The APG-80 AESA radar incorporates

the latest technology to a level exceeding that of any available in a

fighter today.

Enhanced High-Thrust Engine

The F-16IN offers one of the world’s best fighter engines – the

General Electric F110-132A engine in the 143 kN thrust class,

with a reputation for stall-free operation. This engine is proven

around the world and continues to demonstrate its record of safety,

reliability, maintainability, and durability. The F-16IN features

an advanced full authority digital electronic control for the most-

reliable single-engine aircraft operation.

Advanced Survivability Features

The small signature of the F-16 reduces detection by enemy

radars. Modern threat warning systems, expendables, and internal

electronic warfare systems help avoid or defeat the most advanced

threats. Superior agility, excellent pilot situational awareness,

buried fuel lines, and fuel inerting systems reduce the F-16’s

vulnerability to attack. Critical systems redundancy and shielding

enhance survivability in the event of attack.

Large Weapons Inventory

F-16 stores integration continues to grow – more than 100 stores in

over 5,000 combinations. Special mission capability, such as anti-

shipping and photoreconnaissance, has been added to the fighter’s

stores mix. With combined load-outs of air-to-air and air-to-ground

weapons, the F-16 has demonstrated the ability to provide self-

escort and defend itself against enemy fighters.

Highly Effective Electronic Warfare Suite

The Electronic Warfare Suite is designed with a high-speed

Fibre Channel data communication architecture meeting

the demanding warfighter requirements for detection,

countermeasures, communications, displays, controls, mission

operation, and internal installation, resulting in one of the most

effective electronic warfare systems ever fielded on a multi role

fighter. The F-16IN Electronic Warfare Suite takes technologies

and capabilities historically confined to large, specialized

electronic warfare aircraft and integrates them into the multi role

fighter configuration.

Net-Centric Warfare Capability

The fusion of net-centric operation and onboard data provides a

total battlespace picture and optimizes mission accomplishment.

Data integrates through all phases of the mission – from mission

planning, navigation, communication, and target prosecution to

return to base – transforming the pilot from an aircraft system

manager to a tactician.

Range and Payload

Conformal fuel tanks (CFTs) significantly extend the F-16IN’s

range and persistence. The CFTs install and remove easily and

are aerodynamically shaped for maximum efficiency without

compromising the F-16’s legendary handling characteristics. The

F-16IN can deliver more than 1,500 kg of ordnance on targets

more than 1,700 km away and return home without refueling.

Advanced Technology That DrivesUnmatched Mission Performance

With the world’s largest, most successful defense contractor.

India’s partnership with Lockheed Martin provides access to the

highest technology, opportunities for technology co-development,

low-risk licensed production, and extensive long-term business

opportunities. Lockheed Martin provides a low-risk production

plan for MMRCA that includes licensed production with

Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) and extensive participation

with Indian industry. Lockheed Martin has also demonstrated

successful F-16 licensed production in four countries and

co-development of other fighters in three countries. The

unparalleled ability to successfully transfer technology and

establish indigenous capability in countries throughout the

world has also been demonstrated. Lockheed Martin has

never failed to meet an offset commitment, with over $37

billion realized by 40 countries. An MMRCA partnership

with Lockheed Martin offers the following benefits:

• High-level transfer of technology

• Indian ability to leverage experience and capability across

the entire defense spectrum – space, air, land, and sea

• Advanced technologies (including true 5TH generation

technology), processes, and procedures, only available through

Lockheed Martin

• The most direct roadmap to F-35 capability based on F-16IN

MMRCA partnering successes

• Opportunities for joint technology development-– air, space,

communications, net-centric warfare, unmanned aerial vehicles,

ground- and sea-based systems, operational data link, and light

combat aircraft

No Comparison: High-Value Industrial Partnership

• Planning, execution, and operational concepts

• U.S. defense production prioritization

• Access to U.S. ranges and test facilities

• Proven and established U.S. contracting processes

• Regulations to ensure timely performance to quality and schedule

With the selection of F-16IN for MMRCA, India joins with 24

countries that have selected the F-16 and its dominant capabilities for

their sovereign defense. The F-16IN – the newest and most advanced

design of any F-16 ever built – provides the Indian Air Force a strong

leadership position within the international community.

No Comparison: Key Strategic Partnerships With the United States and the U.S. Air Force

MMRCA is a key program for the U.S. Air Force and a critical enabler in the relationship between the Indian Air Force and the U.S. Air Force. The U.S. Air Force provides high value to the Indian Air Force with program and acquisition oversight, affordability through

weapon system commonality, operational effectiveness through joint exercises, common training, and concept of operations/tactics

development. Through the partnership, the Government of India benefits from U.S. Air Force support in the following ways:

No Comparison: F-16IN

• The right fighter

• The right technologies

• The right partners

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