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

Top Aces ex-Israeli F-16s are receiving upgrades, including new avionics, radars and infrared search and track systems.

By Tyler Rogoway

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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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Top Aces interview from the floor of Air, Space, Cyber '24

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Tyler Rogoway

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Tyler’s passion is the study of military technology, strategy, as well as foreign policy, and he has fostered a dominant voice on those topics in the defense and national security space. Tyler was the creator of the hugely popular defense site Foxtrot Alpha before developing TWZ, which he continues to lead as the Editor-In-Chief to this day.

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