World’s Only Private Company With F-16 Aggressors Talks Rapidly Evolving Their Capabilities

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Last week, The War Zone‘s Jamie Hunter chatted with Top Aces’ Aaron “Fang” Steffens on the show floor of the Air & Space Forces Association’s Air, Space, Cyber 2024 conference. Top Aces is the only private aggressor support contractor to fly the F-16. You can read our most recent deep dive on Top Aces’ operation here. Now they are evolving their ex-Israeli F-16A/B Netz fighters with advanced adversary-specific avionics, AESA radar, and infrared search and track systems.

Steffens gave us the latest on what Top Aces is up to:

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