Morocco Upgrades F-16 Fleet with Advanced US Weapons System, Doubling Combat Capacity

L3Harris Technologies will provide a smart bomb release system to the air forces of three countries: Morocco, Jordan and Bahrain as part of an initial $26 million contract. The delivery contract is of indefinite duration and indefinite quantity with an initial lot of 105 release systems.

Called the (BRU)-57/A, this release system allows the F-16s to double their ammunition capacity, but also to reduce the number of aircraft during an attack mission. It also allows to gain a lot of time when returning from a bombing mission, with a view to its rearming.

For the record, Washington had also approved the modernization of the Moroccan F-16s that the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) already own, for an amount of $983 million.