Procurement: Turks Upgrade and Expand F-16 Force

Archives

August 2, 2007: Turkey has gone ahead and completed negotiations to obtain 30 F-16 Block 50 fighters. Turkey is also upgrading its older F-16s to something similar to the Block 50 standard. The new fighters will arrive by 2009. The new F-16s will cost about $60 million each, including support, training and some spare parts. In a few years, Turkey will have a force of some 200 of the most modern F-16s in service. Turkey considered holding off on some of these upgrades, because the F-35 would be arriving soon. But not soon enough, and it was determined that an up-to-date F-16 force now was a wiser way to go.

 

X

ad

Help Keep Us From Drying Up

We need your help! Our subscription base has slowly been dwindling.

Each month we count on your contributions. You can support us in the following ways:

  1. Make sure you spread the word about us. Two ways to do that are to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
  2. Subscribe to our daily newsletter. We’ll send the news to your email box, and you don’t have to come to the site unless you want to read columns or see photos.
  3. You can contribute to the health of StrategyPage.
Subscribe   Contribute   Close