Four F16 aircraft up to Portugal in preparation for delivery to Iraq
Four F16 aircraft up to Portugal in preparation for delivery to Iraq
11/07/2015 13:16 GMT
Follow-up – and babysit – Report site said [Scramble.nl] which warplanes and trade movement is made all over the world that “the four fighter jets F16 model Huquihd Martin US landed at Lajes Field, located in the Azores, Portugal, Islands last Thursday night coming from Tucson US airport. ”
He pointed out that the arrival of these aircraft to Portugal “shows willingness base Balad, north of Baghdad, to receive” pointing out that “It is not known whether these aircraft will spend some time in the Azores before heading to Iraq.”
The Minister of Defense Khalid al-Obeidi earlier “base country is ready to receive the aircraft, which will have a significant impact on the conduct of the battle against terrorism.”
And trained more than 40 Iraqi pilots since 2012 plane F-16, in the state of Arizona with the US Air Force School of International F-16, Air National Guard in Arizona.
Iraq signed with the United States to buy 36 aircraft of this type were only seven of them handed over to the base Tucson in Arizona from Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, Texas.
The Ministry of Defense, said Saturday that the receipt of the first meal of the US F-16 will be at the end of the month of July.
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