Kacey Roberts
The U.S. Air Force has completed a series of tests for Northrop Grumman’s AN/ALQ-257 Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite, designed to enhance U.S. and international F-16 fleets’ survivability in hostile electromagnetic spectrum environments.
Northrop said Wednesday that IVEWS demonstrated the ability to detect, identify and counter advanced radio frequency threats while safely operating alongside other F-16 systems.
The system specifically underwent Integration Demonstrations and Applications Lab events, a flight demonstration on a surrogate platform and Laboratory Intelligent Validated Emulator closed-loop testing at the Air Force’s Joint Preflight Integration of Munitions and Electronic Sensors facility.
Following the tests, IVEWS is now set to undergo flight testing on the service branch’s F-16 aircraft.
