Via the invaluable Secret Projects site comes a brochure on Lockheed Martin's F-16IN proposal to India.
The options list is a mixture of features from the United Arab Emirates' F-16E/F and the Advanced Block 50 that is standard for other export customers. The active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar is the Northrop Grumman APG-80 from the F-16E/F; the company's newly announced Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) is optimized for retrofits, and unlike the APG-80 does not need added power and cooling.
Also from the E/F are the big-screen glass cockpit and the General Electric F110-GE-132 engine.
However, the F-16IN does not have the E/F's integrated electro-optical system, presumably relying instead on a chin-station targeting pod. The Indian AF can pick the market-leading Rafael Litening - the UAE, for obvious reasons, won't. The F-16IN brochure depicts the VSI Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System, likewise taboo in the UAE. The EW system looks like the ITT ALQ-211(V)4 AIDEWS, selected by Chile and - according to a local press report - Turkey, where it beat a BAE Systems/Aselsan system that the Turkish MoD had invested heavily in.
Lockheed Martin has to overcome the "F-104S" syndrome in order to win the Indian Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) contract: it's a reference to the Italian AF, who bought the last and greatest version of the elegant F-104 back in the mid-1960s and found themselves the sole operator of the type in the 1980s. Like the Gripen crew, they struggle against the Indian operator's perception that single-engine jets are lawn darts.
Lockheed Martin also argues that they have unparalleled experience in license production - F-16s have been license-built in four countries - and that a simple, low-cost fighter makes sense as a complement to the Su-30MKI.
In all seriousness, the single engine mishap rate for the IAF is horrendous, across the board, which means that it's not the aircraft, it's the system (maintenance, flight training, proficiency, parts, etc.) in which it operates. I know the IAF has been taking this seriously and is trying to realign its culture in this regards, but it will take a near generation for all that to happen. I'd hate to see either the Gripen or the F-16 be at a disadvantage due to that perception. Question in my mind is MGWT performance numbers in hot/high environments for both birds.