{"id":199980,"date":"2007-06-13T06:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/13\/us-air-force-to-expand-boeing-f-15c-active-radar-upgrade-with-raytheon-05-06-2007-washington-dc-flight-international\/"},"modified":"2007-06-13T06:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T11:28:00","slug":"us-air-force-to-expand-boeing-f-15c-active-radar-upgrade-with-raytheon-05-06-2007-washington-dc-flight-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/13\/us-air-force-to-expand-boeing-f-15c-active-radar-upgrade-with-raytheon-05-06-2007-washington-dc-flight-international\/","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force to expand Boeing F-15C active radar upgrade with Raytheon-05\/06\/2007-Washington DC-Flight International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My guess would be that the US is expecting to see more cruise missile threats, and this upgrade is about dealing with this.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, it may be that the F-22 is too damn expensive to buy enough to use in a meaningful defense of the US, and the JSF is behind schedule.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p> <span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2007\/06\/05\/214454\/us-air-force-to-expand-boeing-f-15c-active-radar-upgrade-with.html\">US Air Force to expand Boeing F-15C active radar upgrade with Raytheon<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Stephen Trimble<\/p>\n<p>Raytheon is reviving a programme to upgrade the US Air Force&#8217;s Boeing F-15C fighters with active electronically scanned array radars, expanding on an initial phase performed on a single squadron of 18 Alaska-based aircraft in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency supplemental funding bill for fiscal year 2007, signed by President George Bush in late May, contains about $62 million to upgrade a small number of active duty F-15Cs with an enhancement of the &#8216;brick&#8217; array APG-63(V)2 radar previously integrated to now use a tile design, says Mike Henchey, Raytheon business development director. Raytheon has previously designated this as the APG-63(V)3, but it is likely to enter service under a new designation in the APG-series, he says. The (V)3 variant refers to the active array of transmitter\/receiver modules, with this front-end to be mated with the APG-63(V)1 radar processor already installed on most of the USAF&#8217;s active duty F-15Cs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My guess would be that the US is expecting to see more cruise missile threats, and this upgrade is about dealing with this. Then again, it may be that the F-22 is too damn expensive to buy enough to use in a meaningful defense of the US, and the JSF is behind schedule. US Air &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}