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The U.S. Congress cannot support the $20 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey until Ankara ratifies the NATO memberships of Sweden and Finland, a bipartisan group of senators said on Thursday.
Turkey has reduced its planned $23 billion acquisition of an F-16 fighter jet package from the United States, scrapping the purchase of 79 modernisation kits for its existing fleet, Defence ...
Rep. Chris Pappas (D-N.H.) has drafted text requiring strict oversight of U.S. sales of F-16 fighter jets and related equipment over security concerns for NATO ally Greece. Pappas is introducing ...
Their first project was to make the new F-16 from the US ready for the Turkish Air Force. In 1984 the US companies Lockheed Martin and General Electric joined in, with TAI producing its first F-16 in 1987. [9] TAI produced 240 F-16 aircraft for Turkey and assembled 46 F-16s for the Egyptian Air Force in the 1980s and 1990s. [10]
The TAI Kaan also called TF ("Turkish Fighter", formerly known as TF-X [6]) and MMU (Milli Muharip Uçak, Turkish for 'National Combat Aircraft' [7]), is a stealth, twin-engine, [8] all-weather air superiority fighter [9] in development by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) and sub-contractor BAE Systems.
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.
Earlier on Wednesday the White House sent a letter to members of Congress urging approval of the $20 billion sale of F-16 aircraft and modernization kits to Turkey, four sources familiar with the ...
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