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The T-7A Red Hawk is a light jet trainer developed jointly by Boeing and Saab for the US Air Force. The T-7A is supposed to replace the obsolete T-38 Talon and provide training for military pilots to serve on existing and future military aircraft.
The Red Hawk was built with active application of modern design methods and inherited many technical solutions from other aircraft, most notably the F/A-18 and JAS-39. Thanks to this, Boeing and Saab managed to create a very interesting and relatively cheap aircraft in a short time. In 2022, the T-7A is completing the test cycle, Boeing is launching mass production and is preparing to start deliveries to the US Air Force.
T-7 Red Hawk: Breaking the norm
The T-7A Red Hawk is an all-new Advanced Pilot Training System (APTS) for the U.S. Air Force, with flexibility to evolve as technologies, missions and training needs change.
Digitally designed, built and tested, the T-7A is a low-risk, leading-edge, live, virtual and constructive fifth-generation aircrew training system that delivers a multi-generational leap in capability to revolutionize and reinvigorate fighter pilot training.
A Multi-generational Leap in Pilot Training
The T-7A Red Hawk is the only digital, next-generation trainer on the market that possesses military certification and meets modern training, low-cost needs. Its digital design enables the cost-effective integration of advanced training capabilities that will drastically improve pilot training for the next generation of fighter and bomber pilots.
The T-7A enhances warfighter training through:
Improved pilot readiness:
The all-new advanced pilot training system uses high resolution ground-based training systems and simulators to deliver robust and realistic integrated live, virtual and constructive training capabilities.
Safety:
Model-based engineering enabled testing throughout the aircraft’s design and build help ensure safety before the first flight. The T-7A’s cockpit egress system is the safest of any trainer.
Flexibility for any mission:
With an Open Mission Systems architecture and digital fly-by-wire controls, the T-7A supports training for a wide variety of fighter and bomber pilots and can evolve as technologies, threats and training needs change.
“The T-38 is a true workhorse training Air Force fighter and bomber pilots for Air Education and Training Command, but the T-7A Red Hawk is a game changer, providing advanced mission systems, a glass touchscreen cockpit, stadium seating, and embedded training capability.”
– Col. Kirt Cassell, U.S. Air Force T-7A program manager
A Fully Integrated Training System
The T-7A represents the cornerstone of the complete Advanced Pilot Training System, which includes state-of-the-art ground-based training, the most advanced visual display systems ever fielded in a simulator and Integrated-Live, Virtual and Constructive (I-LVC) and Embedded training.
The system is designed so that it can operate without a ground station or for untethered operations, which:
> Allows multiple aircraft to fly cooperatively or fly against one another
> Allows aircraft to fly against ground simulators
> Allows multiple pre-programmed mission scenarios which can be selected on the fly from the cockpit or controlled from the ground by a mission coordinator Students flying in the T-7A Red Hawk benefit from enhanced situational awareness, improved decision making, realistic preparation, improved safety and increased confidence compared to other training solutions.
Enabling Operational Readiness
With its purpose-built design, ease of access to maintenance panels and avionics compartments and increased reliability, the T-7A greatly reduces the impact of planned and unplanned maintenance to increase pilot proficiency, safety and force readiness.
Additionally, the Red Hawk is designed around common subsystems with 4th and 5th-gen aircraft to allow for the use of existing maintenance infrastructure, further simplifying maintenance and sustainment for lower life cycle costs.
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