Turkey Begins Indigenous Upgrade Of F-16 Fleet

This Turkish Block 30 F-16 is one of the prototypes for the Ozgur program.

Credit: Tony Osborne/Aviation Week
Turkey has launched the production phase of an upgrade program for the country’s long-serving F-16s. The Ozgur-2–Turkish for “free”–upgrade package is set to modernize Block 30, 40 and 50 model aircraft with a domestically developed active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, avionics and...
Tony Osborne

Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.

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