By Garrett Reim2021-07-08T19:45:00+01:00
The US Air Force (USAF) plans to disassemble and make 3D digital scans of two Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters mothballed in the Arizona desert.
The effort is intended to give the service the precise specifications of the aircraft’s parts and airframe so that it can reproduce components in the future, possibly contracting work to new manufacturers. The USAF believes having a “digital twin” of the F-16 will help lower future sustainment and modernisation costs, it says on 5 July.
Source: US Air Force
F-16 mothballed at Davis-Monthan AFB that will be used to create a digital replica of the fighter, a 3D model that the USAF wants to use to reduce sustainment and modernization costs