A substantial upgrade of the Republic of China Air Force's F-16A/B Fighting Falcon fleet has been offered to Taiwan by the US Government at the request of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Washington, DC. The deal is worth an estimated $5.3 billion and was notified to the US Congress by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency on September 21. The package covers the retrofit of 145 F-16A/BS. It includes 176 active electronically scanned array radars of an unspecified variant; 176 embedded Global Positioning System inertial navigation systems; 176 AN/ALQ-213 electronic warfare management systems; the upgrade of 82 AN/ALQ-184 electronic countermeasures (ECM) pods to incorporate Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM) technology or the purchase of new ECM pods (AN/ ALQ-211(v)9 Airborne Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare Suites with DRFM, or AN/ALQ-131 pods with DRFM); 86 tactical data link terminals; upgrade to 28 electro-optical infrared targeting Sharpshooter pods; 26 AN/ AAQ-33 Sniper Targeting Systems or AN/AAQ-28 Litening Targeting Systems; 128 Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems; 128 night vision goggles.
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