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Moroccan F-16s getting smart bomb release system to expand firepower

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Royal Moroccan Air Force F-16 fighters will be able to double the amount of smart weapons they can carry thanks to new L3Harris smart...

New military aircraft maintenance facility being established in Morocco

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Sabca and Sabena Aerospace, part of Belgium’s Blueberry Group, together with Lockheed Martin, are establishing a military aircraft maintenance facility in Morocco. The Blueberry Group...

American International Contractors awarded Egyptian F-16 hangar contact

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Virginia-based company American International Contractors has been awarded a $24 million contract to build an F-16 maintenance hangar at Egypt’s Marsa Matrouh Air Base. The...

Egyptian Air Force F-16s, Mirage 2000s fitted with Al Tariq PGMs

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The Egyptian Air Force (EAF) has acquired Denel-designed Al Tariq precision guided munitions (PGMs) and is now deploying them on its Mirage 2000 and...

Turkey asks US to buy 40 F-16 jets to upgrade Air...

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Turkey has made a request to the US to buy 40 Lockheed Martin-made F-16 fighter jets and nearly 80 modernization kits for its existing...

Raytheon receives $200 million order for Moroccan F-16 engines

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Raytheon has been awarded a $212 million contract for F100-PW-229 engines for Royal Moroccan Air Force F-16 fighters. The US Department of Defence announced the...

Moroccan, US fighters and refuellers showcase combined capabilities

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Two US Air Force F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft from the 31st Fighter Wing, Aviano Air Base, Italy, conducted an Agile Combat Employment (ACE) event...

Lockheed Martin awarded contract for Moroccan F-16s

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Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract from the United States Department of Defence for F-16 fighters for Taiwan and Morocco, which will receive...

Morocco requests Harpoon missiles

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Morocco has requested the sales of ten Boeing AGM-84L Harpoon Block II air-launched anti-ship missiles from the United States in a $62 million deal. The...

Morocco requests huge weapons and ammunition sale from the US

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Morocco has requested the sale of ammunition and weapons worth nearly a billion dollars from the United States, including anti-tank missiles and armament for...

Egyptian F-16 engine upgrade underway

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General Electric Aviation has started upgrading F110 engines for the Egyptian Air Force’s F-16 fleet. General Electric Aviation said on 26 July that the first...

Hackers hit Bulgaria, send data from Russian email

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Hackers stole thousands of Bulgarians’ personal financial data and distributed it from a Russian-based email in an attack possibly related to the purchase of...

Morocco requests $250 million F-16 sustainment contract

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Morocco has requested a $250.4 million support package from the United States for its F-16 fleet, which would include spares, training and logistics support. The...

Morocco looking to purchase additional F-16s, upgrade existing fleet

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The Royal Moroccan Air Force (RMAF) is looking to acquire an additional batch of F-16 Fighting Falcons from the United States and upgrade its...

Egypt to upgrade F-16 engines

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General Electric Aviation has been awarded a $275 million contract to upgrade the engines of Egypt's F-16 Fighting Falcon fleet. The US Department...

Croatia to buy F-16 fighter jets from Israel

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Croatia has accepted Israel's offer to supply a dozen F-16 fighter jets for its air force, the government confirmed on Thursday. The deal...

Israeli jet shot down after bombing Iranian site in Syria

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Anti-aircraft fire downed an Israeli warplane returning from a bombing raid on Iran-backed positions in Syria on Saturday in the most serious...

Lockheed sees demand for additional 400 F-16 jets over 10 years

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Lockheed Martin Corp is anticipating demand for an additional 400 F-16 fighter jets globally over the next decade, a senior executive at...

US approves $3.8 billion in arms sales to Bahrain

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The U.S. State Department has approved arms sales packages worth more than $3.8 billion to Bahrain including F-16 jets, upgrades, missiles and...

Paris Air Show military aviation roundup

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Here are details of military orders and announcements made during the 2017 Paris Air Show last week. Airbus Defense and Space's C295 was...

Trump administration pursues sale of F-16’s to Bahrain

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President Donald Trump's administration has informed Congress of its plan to pursue the $5 billion sale to Bahrain of 19 Lockheed Martin...

Moroccan Air Force orders countermeasures for its F-16s

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The Royal Moroccan Air Force (RMAF) has ordered AN/ALQ-211 Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare Suite (AIDEWS) systems from Harris Corporation to help...

Denmark to pull F-16 fighter jets from Syria and Iraq

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Denmark will not extend military operations of its seven F-16 fighter jets in Syria and Iraq from mid-December after six months in...

Egypt getting more LANTIRN targeting pods

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Egypt is due to receive 65 LANTIRN targeting pods from the United States under the Excess Defense Articles (EDA) programme. This is according...

Moroccan F-16s to be upgraded, get new countermeasures

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Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $16 million contract to upgrade the Royal Moroccan Air Force's F-16 fleet while Harris has been...

US Air Force F-16s in Djibouti

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A detachment of US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons is operating out of Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti over concerns of threats to...

Danish warplanes drop first bombs against Islamic State in Syria

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Danish warplanes bombed Syria for the first time, its military said on Friday, as Denmark extended its fight against Islamic State from...

Italy votes to halt aviation supplies to Egypt over student death

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The Italian Senate voted on Wednesday to halt supplies to Egypt of spare parts for F16 warplanes in protest against the killing...

Egypt extending F-16 engine lives

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General Electric has been awarded a contract to extend the service lives of Egyptian F-16 engines. The US Department of Defence on 16...

U.S. OKs sale of 8 Lockheed F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan

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The U.S. government said on Friday it had approved the sale to Pakistan of up to eight F-16 fighter jets built by...

Egypt receives final four F-16s

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The Egyptian Air Force has received the final four of 12 F-16 Fighting Falcon jets from the United States, with the aircraft...

Turkish jets join U.S.-led coalition strikes on Islamic State

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Turkish jets took part in U.S.-led coalition air strikes against Islamic State in Syria for the first time on Friday, the Turkish...

U.S. sends 6 jets, 300 personnel to Turkey base in Islamic...

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The United States sent six F-16 jets and about 300 personnel to Incirlik Air Base in Turkey on Sunday, the U.S. military...

New F-16s, Rafales, FREMM frigate take part in opening of New...

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Egypt's newly delivered F-16s and Rafale fighter jets and its FREMM frigate took part in the opening of the new Suez Canal...

US delivering eight F-16s to Egypt

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The United States will have delivered eight F-16 Block 52 fighter jets to Egypt by Saturday, the first such deliveries since military...

Moroccan army says no evidence crashed jet pilot in Yemen died

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Morocco's army said on Wednesday there was no evidence the pilot of F-16 fighter jet that crashed during air strikes in Yemen...

Moroccan F-16 jet from Saudi-led coalition in Yemen crashes

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A Moroccan F-16 warplane has crashed while on a mission with Saudi Arabia-led forces in Yemen, a Saudi military spokesman said on...

Resumption of US military aid to Egypt means enhanced airborne attack...

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One of the most paramount political implications of the resumption of US military aid to Egypt is the validation of the current...

US Air Force awards contracts for Moroccan P5 air Combat Training...

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The US Air Force has contracted Cubic Defense Applications to supply the Royal Moroccan Air Force (RMAF) with the P5 Combat Training...

Egyptian F-16 deliveries begin

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Egypt has received the first of 20 F-16 Fighting Falcons ordered from the United States in 2010. Deliveries are set to conclude...

Denmark’s contribution to Unified Protector cost US$110 million

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Denmark's contribution to military operations against Muammar Gaddafi's regime cost the country US$110 million, according to Denmark's Ministry of Finance. Denmark was one...

Iraq seeks 18 additional F-16s

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Iraq has requested another 18 Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets from the United States as the country tries to improve its aerial...

Lockheed awarded contract for 18 Iraqi F-16s

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Lockheed Martin has been awarded a US$835 million contract covering 18 F-16s for the Iraqi Air Force. The contract, announced on Monday by...

US says giving, not selling, F-16s to Indonesia

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The United States is giving, not selling, two dozen second-hand F-16 fighter planes to Indonesia to strengthen security ties with an "important...

Egypt purchases Sniper targeting pods

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The Egyptian Air Force (EAF) has selected Lockheed Martin's Sniper targeting pod to equip its 20 F-16 fighters purchased under the Peace...

Denmark extends Libya mission

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Denmark will take part in NATO operations against Libya for another three months, and will allow the rebel National Transitional Council to...

Morocco receives first four F-16s

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The Royal Moroccan Air Force yesterday took delivery of the first four of 24 Lockheed Martin F-16s at a ceremony at Ben...

First four F-16s depart for Morocco

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The first four of 24 new Lockheed Martin Block 52 F-16s for the Royal Moroccan Air Force have left the factory in...

Norway withdraws F-16s from Libya

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Norway's remaining four F-16s assigned to NATO operations over Libya have returned home, as the Nordic country ends its role in Operation...

Morocco sign up for F-16

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Lockheed Martin has been awarded an $841,877,905 contract to provide for 24 F-16 Block 52 aircraft to the government of Morocco in...