Popular Science Honors F-16E/F

Popular Science Magazine named the F-16E/F Block 60 as one of the top 100 most innovative technologies of 2004. The magazine editors noted that "a high-tech makeover has turned Lockheed Martin's thirty-year-old F-16 into one of the most modern fighters flying. The jet's AN/APG-80 radar uses more than 1,000 finger-sized transmitters so that the pilot can track ground and air targets simultaneously. The upgrade also includes an automated radar jammer, head-up cockpit displays, and a tweaked GE engine that delivers twenty-five percent more power than the original F-16's engine." The editors chose the Mars Rovers as the grand-prize winner in the aviation and space category

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