The US has contracted with Lockheed Martin to provide 18 Sniper advanced targeted pod for the Block 52 F-16s going to Pakistan. A Lockheed statement notes that Pakistan will be the eighth international customer for the Sniper ATP. The company expects to begin deliveries next year. The US and Pakistan reached agreement on the sale of 36 new F-16s to Pakistan last year.
For 30 days in April and May, a group of expeditionary communications technicians got together at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, with one task: Find a way for the F-35 to transfer data on remote or contested Pacific islands.