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Are these 4 part of the 18 A/C we finally received in Dec 2010?
Moreover they are not block 50/52.
not quite correct - the money in question was US$650m which was advance-payment for the F-16s.
350m was utilised to purchase 'other weapons' and 300m was returned in soybeans.....meanwhile 911 took place, the sanctions were removed - no one wanted these 28 F-16s parked in the desert - not NZ, not Philiapines - they were 'transferred' to USAF and USN - in 2006 Bush admin 'agreed' to give back the a/c as a sign of 'good-will' - USAF released the 14 a/c - the USN did not - in essence the US still owes us 14 F-16s - they offered blk-25/30/40 a/c parked in AMRAC but the PAF rejected these mounts due to their 'airframe stress' - in other words they were too old - so now come in the Norway F-16s as the US has given 'NoC' for PAF to negotiate with the NoAF - further new F-16s are possible but we have to come up with our own funds which looks 'bleak' at this time.
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so we basically got our money back. that means they dont owe us anything...
and btw that info was from an interview that musharraf gave it to a western news channel
so i kinda quoted his words......but its the first hand info and that means its reliable!
LOL where do u see A/Cs in them????
and obviously they are not blk 50/52!
look at the pic carefully! they are Bs
bhai jan...4 aircrafts in the back ground, I know they are Bs (obviously if they are not D then they are Bs).
you have increased my knowledge by saying they are Bs
my question is still not answered
Are these 4 part of the 18 aircrafts we finally received in Dec 2010? or they belong to some other delivery.
bhai jan...4 aircrafts in the back ground, I know they are Bs (obviously if they are not D then they are Bs).
you have increased my knowledge by saying they are Bs
my question is still not answered
Are these 4 part of the 18 aircrafts we finally received in Dec 2010? or they belong to some other delivery.
bhai jan...4 aircrafts in the back ground, I know they are Bs (obviously if they are not D then they are Bs).
you have increased my knowledge by saying they are Bs
my question is still not answered
Are these 4 part of the 18 aircrafts we finally received in Dec 2010? or they belong to some other delivery.
here is the delivery scheduleAfter the detonation of five nuclear devices by India in May 1998, in a remote area close to its border with Pakistan, Washington feared that this might escalate the old border dispute between Pakistan and India to a full crisis. In order to keep Pakistan from responding to this challenge, US president Bill Clinton suggested that the 28 stored F-16s would be delivered after all, in batches of 1 or 2. However, the internal pressure on the government proved to strong and shortly after India's demonstration, Pakistan responded by detonating an unknown number of nuclear devices.
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In 2002, the US finally stopped trying to sell the aircraft and decided to assign them to the USAF and US Navy to fill the Aggressor role. After the demise of the (T)F-16N aggressor force, the US Navy lacked a high-performance aggressor aircraft. Because of the low airframe life of the embargoed Pakistani F-16s, these airframes were ideally suited for the demanding aggressor role. The 28 aircraft were thus evenly split between the USAF and the US Navy, and will take a vital role in DACT training of US forces.
After the attacks on 9/11 the Pakistani government became a major US ally in the war on terror. It was decided to redeliver those aircraft to Pakistan. Untill now, only half of them has been redelivered, with the remainder still to follow.
http://www.f-16.net/f-16_users_article14.html
so we basically got our money back. that means they dont owe us anything...
and btw that info was from an interview that musharraf gave it to a western news channel
so i kinda quoted his words......but its the first hand info and that means its reliable!
What is the current cost of a new F-16, whichever variant that is currently under production. The total cost that comes of a FMS program, what does that include?
So---basically---pakistan which gave close to 700 million dollars upfront got back in real money maybe about 100 million dollars worth of equipment and grain.
That is a black spot on PAF----.