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Bulgaria – On 3 June 2019, the US State Department approved the possible sale of 8 F-16 Block 70s to Bulgaria. [280] On 26 July the deal was approved by the Bulgarian parliament, and President Rumen Radev. [281] In November 2022, the purchase of a further 8 F-16 Block 70 fighters, spares, weapons and other systems was approved for delivery in ...
On 25 March 2019, the US government approved the sale of 25 new F-16 Block 72s and related equipment for an estimated cost of $3.787 billion, [119] as well as an upgrade package to bring the 23 existing F-16 Block 52+ up to the very similar F-16V standard plus the related equipment for an estimated cost of $985.2 million. [120]
The F-16 Enhanced Strategic (ES) was an extended-range variant of the F-16C/D fitted with conformal fuel tanks that granted it a 40% greater range over the standard Block 50. The F-16ES also featured an internal FLIR system, which offered the capabilities of the LANTIRN navigation and targeting system without the drag associated with external pods.
This, compounded with other lost contracts, led to the demise of the F-20 program and the elimination of one more competitor for the F-16 in the worldwide fighter market. The F-16C as procured by the Navy was equipped with the lighter AN/APG-63 radar set as flown in the F-16A and had a titanium wing spar as in other F-16s. It was not equipped ...
The sale of the 40 new Lockheed Martin F-16 jets and ammunition for them will cost Turkey some $7 billion, Guler added. Turkey placed its order in October 2021, two years after the United States ...
The crews of two F-16s fired flares to catch the attention of the pilot of the civilian craft and escorted it out of the restricted airspace without further incident, North American Aerospace ...
Belgian Air Component F-16A FA-113, at Beauvechain Air Base, Belgium. The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is an American supersonic multirole fighter aircraft originally developed for the United States Air Force. It has since been adopted by numerous air forces worldwide, and has been in near-continuous production since 1974, totaling ...
Artificial intelligence software flew the VISTA X-62A for more than 17 hours, marking the first time AI operated a tactical aircraft.