50 plus F-16s for Israel

50 plus F-16s for Israel

20 June 2001

The Government of Israel has reached an understanding with Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company to purchase more than 50 additional F-16 aircraft.

The aircraft are being purchased in a follow-on order to the 50 ordered by Israel in 1999 and will be produced in the same advanced, two-seat F-16 I configuration.

Deliveries will be in 2006, following completion of the 50 aircraft that were already on order, and will be completed in 2009. Total value of this follow-on purchase is approximately $2 billion with Lockheed Martin portion approximately $1.3 billion.

The aircraft will include a number of systems produced by Israeli industry and will be powered by the Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-229 engine. Final assembly will occur at Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth, Texas, facility.

"This order is another significant development that continues the long heritage of co-operative programme between the Government of Israel and Lockheed Martin Corporation. It reinforces the significant defence capability provided by Israel's Air Force, which relies on the F-16 as the backbone of its fighter aircraft fleet," said Amos Yaron, Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

Israel has the world's largest F-16 fleet outside the United States Air Force. The country has received or ordered more than 300 F-16 aircraft, including 102 new ones ordered since 1999 and 50 earlier model F-16s that were acquired from the US inventory in the mid-1990s.


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Дураки вы. Покупайте наше оружие - оно дешевле будет, да еще и в бою лучше.

а за щет чего заказали? хотели же ф 15, да бабок нема. хиреем. вон на йудеа.ру очень печальная статя, сравнивающая наши ВВС с арабскими.

Эти F-16 покупаются за те же амеровские бабки. Поначалу хотели купить ударных F-15, но видно пораскинув мозгами решили что лучше купить F-16, но больше.

Статью про сравнение ВВС я постил. Ничего там печального нет. Хотя и радостного тоже. Египет получает амеровскую помощь в том же размере, что и Израиль.