By WENDELL MINNICK
TAIPEI — South Korea has selected Raytheon over Northrop Grumman to provide active electronically-scanned array (AESA) radars for upgrades to its fighter jets, said Jim Hvizd, vice president of International Strategy and Business Development for Raytheon’s Space and Airborne Systems Division, during a teleconference on April 10.
The Raytheon Advanced Combat Radar (RACR) beat the Northrop Grumman Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) for South Korea’s AESA requirement. The radars will be part of upgrades for the country’s 134 KF-16C/D Block 52 fighters.
This is not a contract award, but a “selection,” Hvizd said. Raytheon will work with the U.S. government as the process moves forward first as a letter of request, then as a letter of acceptance, and finally as a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) case, he said. Hvizd could not provide a price tag for the radar integration, but did indicate deliveries would begin in late 2016 with final delivery in 2021.
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