New sensor?
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what is that?
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Something like the F-35, the Block 60 F-16 has a built in FLIR/laser targeting system rather than using a dedicated pod that would occupy a hardpoint, increase drag and RCS, but again I might be wrong.
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That isn’t block 60 is the Poland viper, F-16D Block 52+
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The A model vipers had that spike antenna on the lower lip of the intake for UHF/ground IFF. They also had a RWR antenna around where the circled pod is.
They didnt have CFTs or AIFF ‘bird slicers’ though, so that I think rules out that possibility.
Could be a jammer antenna for the AN/ALQ-211v4 maybe?
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The little stick in the intake is called the bird-slicer? Learn something new everyday…
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The little stick in the intake is called the bird-slicer? Learn something new everyday…
No, the inlet strut is a heating element. The bird slicers are the 4 antennae on the upper surface of the radome, and are used for the AIFF system on the 50/52 CCIP’d jets.
Fowards of the canopy, you can see the bird slicers - they are the 4 antennae aligned with the longitudinal axis of the aircraft.
The inlet strut has been jokingly called a CCD - Crew Chief Divider - there to separate the crew chief into more manageable pieces for the engine to deal with, in the event of crew chief ingestion and FOD. Its actual purpose is as a structural element to support the inlet shape, and it contains a heating element to prevent ice build up on the strut in flight.
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The slicers are more pronunced in the ADF variant
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/planes/q0286b.shtml
@blu3wolf: Seem he has a nice “lift line” on the canopy
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That’s the reflection of the boom.
And the bird slicers also apply to MLU jets as this picture is showing, my guess it’s a Belgian MLU from 31st tiger Squadron. (you can see the tiger name tag, and on the right fuel tank you can see a tiger paw. And the rank stripes on his shoulder are typical from the BAF)
