Lockheed Martin Tries to Get Indonesia Interested in F-16V Fighter Aircraft

Lockheed Martin brought its F-16 cockpit demonstrator to Indonesia this week to highlight the F-16V, the latest version of the F-16 Fighting Falcon multirole fighter.

The F-16V offers the most advanced 4th Generation capability available on the market today, including Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) and enhancements to the aircraft's mission computer, vehicle systems, aircraft structure, cockpit and electronic warfare system.

The F-16V is the next generation configuration that leverages a common worldwide sustainment infrastructure and provides significant capability improvements to the world's most affordable and effective multi-role fighter.

This upgrade and production configuration will be the predominant configuration for the F-16 worldwide fleet. The new avionics configuration represents the most significant F-16 upgrade to date, a Lockheed Martin statement said.

Inndonesia is in the process of replacing its old fighter aircraft and has recently announced a decison to buy the Sukhoi Su-35. It has older generation F-5s which it wants to replace with new aircraft.