Raytheon, Northrop AESA radars pass F/A-18 'fit check' in prelude to possible new USMC program

By Jason Sherman / August 13, 2018 at 5:23 PM
The Marine Corps' gambit to replace the venerable AN/APG-73 radar in nearly 100 older-model F/A-18 Hornets is advancing after Raytheon and Northrop Grumman both passed a government-requested "fit check" to assess whether off-the-shelf Active Electronically Scanned Array radars produced by the two U.S. defense contractors are compatible with the available space in the fighter aircraft's nose. On Aug. 13, Northrop announced it successfully installed its proposed offering -- the APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) -- on an F/A-18C at...

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