L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) has been awarded a contract modification for production and delivery of F-16 Block 52 weapon tactics trainers (WTTs) to the Iraqi Air Force (IqAF).
Awarded by the US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC), the unspecified contract follows a contract received by the company in November 2012 for the supply of two F-16 Block 52 full mission trainers (FMTs) to IqAF.
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Under the contract, the company, a unit of L-3 Communications, will manufacture and deliver two F-16 WTTs, along with two brief / debrief systems and one mission observation centre.
L-3 Link president Lenny Genna said that the new comprehensive training system will enable Iraqi F-16 pilots to improve their tactical skills over a full range of mission areas.
"The high-fidelity F-16 Block 52 Full Mission Trainers, for instance, will allow pilots to gain training credit equivalent to live training while conducting either new or advanced skills training,” Genna added.
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Each of the two F-16 Block 52 WTT are scheduled to combine a tactically relevant physical cockpit with a single out-the-window visual display monitor.
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By GlobalDataIn addition, the trainers will use the same high-fidelity computational system, software and models that are installed on the FMTs, and hence can be networked to the FMTs to support four-ship tactical team training.
Currently under production, the F-16 FMTs are designed to enable pilots to conduct simulated air-to-air and air-to-ground combat exercises, and also practice takeoffs and landings, aerial in-flight refuelling, low-level flight and emergency procedures within a geo-specific visual system database of Iraq.
The first system is expected to achieve ready-for-training milestone during the first quarter of 2015, while remaining training devices, brief / debrief systems and mission observation centre will become training ready during the fourth quarter of the same year.
All of the training devices and support systems are scheduled to be installed at Balad Air Base in northern Iraq.
Delivery schedule of the new contract remained undisclosed.
Image: A USAF personnel explaining cockpit lay out of an F-16 Fighting Falcon to an IQAF pilot at Balad Air Base, Iraq. Photo: courtesy of Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ryan Hansen.
