Abadi Office announces the intention of Washington delivered the first aircraft F16 Iraq this month
Abadi Office announces the intention of Washington delivered the first aircraft F16 Iraq this month
12/14/2014 08:31 GMT
Follow-up – and babysit – the office of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said that the US side will hand over Iraqi pilots who are trained in one of the rules in the United States first F16 aircraft this month.
He said the media spokesman for the office Saad newborn in a press statement, “It was emphasized during the visit of US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to Baghdad recently the need to speed up the processing of security forces with weapons and equipment to the extent that they can make progress and the need to accelerate the pace of support,” pointing out that “the American side promised that there will be an open support. ”
Sabri said that “the American side committed to deliver Iraqi pilots who are trained in one of the bases on US soil, the first F-16 aircraft during the current month of December first,” asserting that “the plane will enter in the field of sorties, and after completion of the training the rest of the aircraft will be delivered.”
The Iraqi government decided in (2 December 2014) and the Ministry of Finance to secure more than one billion and $ 500 million to the Department of Defense to reimburse the purchase of “F-16″ PSC / H aircraft contracts
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