NEW YORK, March 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. Air Force has contracted L-3 Communications to deliver high-definition simulator technologies to support ongoing aircraft training operations.
U.S. company L-3 says its Link Simulation and Training unit was selected by the Air Force to provide the Aeronautical Systems Center's Training Systems Product Group with its F-16 Mission Training Center suite simulators.
Under the $20.9 million exercised contract option, L-3 will provide its simulator technologies with U.S. defense company Boeing, which will provide its instructor/operator stations among other requirements supporting Air Force aircraft training.
"The technologies being delivered on the F-16 Mission Training Center simulators are providing a solution that will maximize pilot operational readiness while reducing training costs to the U.S. Air Force," Bob Birmingham, L-3 Link Simulation and Training president, said in a statement.
"For the first time ever in a simulator, F-16 pilots will be able to detect, judge the orientation of, recognize and identify targets from the same distance as when flying an actual mission."
