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T-7A Red Hawk

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.

T-7A in flight

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:听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:听Model-based engineering enabled testing throughout the aircraft鈥檚 design and build help ensure safety before the first flight. The T-7A鈥檚 cockpit egress system is the safest of any trainer.
  • Flexibility for any mission:听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.

鈥淭he 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.鈥

鈥 Col. Kirt Cassell, U.S. Air Force T-7A program manager

T-7A takeoff

T-7A Red Hawk Technical Specifications

Span 30.60 ft
Centerline Length 46.0 ft
Overall Length 47.73 ft
Max Cross Section (With Acap) 37.7 ft2
Engine (As Drawn) F404 Afterburning
Fuel: Fuselage 4,500 lbs
Expected Aircraft Performance / Envelope tested (as of Oct. 2023)
Max Mach
Max Alt
Max AoA
Max G

0.975M
45 K ft.
30掳
8 G

A Fully Integrated Training System

T-7A 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.

T-7A on runway

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