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Prime Minister Costas Simitis said on Friday Greece will buy more than50 F16Block-50 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin for about $2 billion. They will also purchase another 15 Mirage 2000-5 from Dassault. ...

Two Thunderbirds F-16C Fighting Falcons were damaged April 25 when they contacted each other during a group formation take off here. ...

Two Thunderbird F-16C Fighting Falcons were damaged April 25 when they contacted each other during a group formation take off at Patrick AFB. Aircraft no. 3 and no. 4 received minor damage as they began their air demonstration during the Air and Space Expo in Florida. Both aircraft landed safely and neither pilot was injured. ...

Four F-16AMs of the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) were among the first NATO aircraft to enter Serbian airspace on the night of 24 March. Within minutes, the Dutch had achieved their first air-to-air victory since World War II, shooting down a Serbian MiG-29....

Air Combat Command officials released the Aircraft Accident Investigation Report today on the Nov. 9, 1998, crash of an 388th Fighter Wing F-16CG from Hill Air Force Base, Utah. ...

First Lt. Erkan Salman and First Lt. Oguz Yeten of FLO 182, the Turkish F-16 squadron at Ghedi Air Base, broke a record of being airborne for 7 hours and 25 minutes with their F-16C's. ...

The Dutch have contributed 16 F-16 fighters, based at the Amendola airbase in southern Italy. Belgium has contributed 10 F-16 fighters, also based at Amendola. Between them, Dutch and Belgian planes conducted more than 588missions in Yugoslavia up to April 15. Both countries are sending four moreF-16 jets. Denmark announced on that it plans to double the number of F-16 jets at Gazzanise airbase to eight. Later this week, the legislature is expected to formally endorse that. Norway F-16s are also based at Gazzanise. Portugal has deployed three F-16s which have been involved in patrols over the Adriatic and Bosnia. ...

The Pentagon has formally notified the U.S. Congress that Egypt intends to purchase 24 more F-16 warplanes from Lockheed Martin Corp. for about $1 billion. After a 30-day review period, Lockheed said, a letter of offer and acceptance would be signed in May. Production deliveries would begin in 2001 and continue for about 15 months, Lockheed said. The planes, which would increase the Egyptian Air Force's current fleet of196 F-16s, are part of a larger $3. 2 billion order from Cairo for U.S. military hardware that was announced last month by Defense Secretary William Cohen. The order for 12 single-seat F-16Cs and 12 two-seat F-16Ds is the sixth Egyptian order of F-16 planes. Deliveries of the fifth order are scheduled to begin in June, but are currently running ahead of schedule. ...

The Danish government will meet NATOs request to double the number of Danish air force F-16 fighter jets taking part in strikes against Yugoslavia to eight aircraft. ...

Shaw is preparing to deploy 24 F-16 CJs and more than 400 support people to the European theater to help in the suppression of enemy air defenses during NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia....

The Philippines announced on Tuesday they have set up an initial fund of six billion pesos ($156 million) to finance the start of their long-delayed military modernization program and were accepting offers from foreign suppliers. ...

The Department of Defense announced today more details on the sale of24 F-16C/D Block 40 aircraft to the Government of Egypt. ...