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Singapore: "In the next months the F-16 jets will be replaced"

The main candidate for the replacement is the F-35

On the agenda of the Ministry of Defense of Singapore, Ng Eng Hen, there is the replacement of the F-16 fighter jet aircraft. "F-16s would face obsolescense beyond 2030", Ng Eng said about the F-16. One of the option, probably, will be the F-35, an idea that the Minister told to the Parliament already in the 2013. But a decision isn't coming yet. Probably this decision will arrive in the next few months...

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Rome, Italy, 07/02/2018 11:15
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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