U.S. company wins contract to create an integrated train station for the F-16 in Iraq

U.S. company wins contract to create an integrated train station for the F-16 in Iraq

18-02-2013 | (Voice of Iraq)

Announced that L-3 Communications, based in New York, on Monday, that it has won a contract to create a central secondary special integrated training simulation devices (Alsamiulietr) for the F-16 Block 52 for the benefit of the Iraqi air force command.

The director of the company the - 3 for systems of electronic, Steve Kantor, in a statement posted on the official website of the company on the Internet, and seen by (long-Presse), that "section with simulations (Alsamiulietr) Training (L-3 Link) in the company, won secondary contract granted him Management Center Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton in Ohio of the U.S. Air Force to build an integrated training centers for the F-16 Block 52 for the benefit of the Iraqi air force. "

He added Cantor, that "the company focused on diversifying its business globally and commercially, and this contract will increase our commitment to this strategy, and for a long time, we were leading company in the field of simulators (Alsamiulietr) for military training, and this is the first contract we absolutely with Iraq in a deal sale simulators for military training. "

He explained that "the base of accurate information followed by the company AL - 3 in apparatus training with player images and programs visual display, in addition to the processing technology of physical device Alsamiulietr will produce a presentation figurehead on a high degree of precision, accompanied atmosphere true environmental accompanying training Combat Aviation equipped system data private atmosphere geography of Iraq.

Cantor continued, "This training system will enable pilots trained to see the information displayed on the flight in the plane, wherever pilot runs his head while driving the plane."

The advantages of simulator that helps to train pilots on how to control the targeting systems and sensitivity of the plane.

It is noteworthy that Iraq has signed an agreement with Washington to buy 36 fighter aircraft model F-16, has announced the Iraqi government (September 2011), the payment of the first installment of the purchase price paid for the purchase of 18 fighter of this kind, as confirmed by the Ministry of Defense, in (July 3 2012), the Iraqi government's desire to increase the number of aircraft in the "near future" to protect Iraqi airspace.

For his part, director of L-3 Link, Lenny Gina, "We welcome Iraq for being our customers atheist tenth global system training on the F-16", pointing out that "our technology high in training devices (Alsamiulietr) will enable pilots F-16 in the Iraqi Air Force to obtain a certificate equivalent to the training neighborhood in the graduation of a new pilot high-skills training. "

The company every 3 to simulators (Alsamiulietr) for military training on the F-16 is the world's leading since the seventies, it equipped the company more than 140 system training for F-16 aircraft for the Air Force and U.S. Air National Guard and military institutions in the world.

And F-16 aircraft produced by the U.S. group General Dynamics, and exported to some 20 countries, is the most widely used fighter in the world.

The deal comes armament within the security agreement signed between Baghdad and Washington at the end of November 2008, which provides for the training and equipping of Iraqi forces.

It is expected to continue relationship with Iraq and the United States during the next phase in what is known (the strategic framework agreement), which provides for the exchange and partnership between the two countries in the fields of economic, diplomatic, cultural and security.

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