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"The Defense Ministry confirmed today that it would sell five additional F-16s
in Romania and said that the planes would be removed from "the inventory
national "and will be replaced by others, which will be purchased from the States
United and will be updated in Portugal, "announced the agency on Thursday
Portuguese Press Lusa .
Confirmation comes a few days after the Minister of National Defense
Romania, Mihai Fifor, said five more F-16s will be
bought in Portugal until the end of the year
A MiG-21 LanceR was collapsed recently at an air show at the Base
Borcea Air Force. The pilot is dead. He was 36 years old and he was
chief pilot at 861 Aviation Fighter 86 Air Force Base
Feteşti, having 400 flight hours, of which 250 were MiG-21
Also, on Monday, an IAR 99 – Şoim aircraft collapsed in Bacău County, the two soldiers on board were successfully catapulted [19659002] Fifor recently announced that after the plane crash at the airbase
Borcea, all the MiG 21 LanceRs of the Romanian army are on the ground,
and currently the air force is in the airspace of Romania
provided by four British Typhoons of the Air Force.
Fifor reported that frequent entries into Romanian airspace are
Russian planes and announced that the airline operates in these
case according to the standard procedures NATO
Romania has concluded a contract with Portugal of 628 million
euro with VAT, which involved the acquisition of 12 F-16s. The first six
Squadron aircraft of 12 multi-level aircraft included in the agreement
Romanian-Portuguese entered the Romanian air force
September 2016, the next three in December 2016, and the last three
in October 2017.
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