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On 28 March 2022, the Government of Canada announced that the competition had placed the F-35A first and planned to buy 88 of them. Under procurement rules, the government entered into negotiations with Lockheed Martin. [35] On 9 January 2023, the government of Canada officially ordered 88 F-35As. [36] [37]
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 ...
In 2024, the Canadian government announced a contract with Top Aces to train Ukraine F-16 pilots. [13] Top Aces, formerly Discovery Air Defence Services (DADS), is no longer a 'Wholly Owned Subsidiary' of the parent company Discovery Air. [14] It is now owned by Clairvest and other unnamed investors with transactions completed on 22 December ...
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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 ...
The F/A-18 had started life as the Northrop F-17 Cobra, a direct competitor to the F-16 during the LWF competition. [9] When the United States Navy expressed an interest in a new multi-role fighter jet under their VFAX project, the United States Congress instead cancelled VFAX and demanded that the U.S. Navy use one of the LWF aircraft under a ...
NATO member Turkey earlier this year secured a deal to procure 40 F-16 fighter jets and 79 modernisation kits for its existing F-16s from the United States, after a long-delayed process.
An F-35 Lightning II test aircraft with the Canadian flag, along with those of other industrial participants, painted on it. Alan S. Williams of Queen's University, the former Assistant Deputy Minister of National Defence (Matériel) who signed the original industrial participation agreement, indicated he believes that the Government of Canada's rationale for joining the JSF project was not ...