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Pak to get six more F-16 aircraft from US | Six new F-16 C/D Block 52 high-tech aircraft will reportedly arrive in Pakistan from the United States on
December 13, after which the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) will have a total of 18 such aircraft. In 2005-06, Pakistan had signed a contract with the US government
for the acquisition of 18 F-16 C/D Block 52 aircraft, under which the PAF would
receive these state-of-the-art aircraft from the US in staggered batches, the
Daily Times reported. While the first batch of three aircraft arrived in Pakistan
in May 2010, and the second batch- of the same quantity- at the PAF Base in Shahbaz
(Jacobabad) in October, six more aircraft reached the country in November. The
F-16 C/D aircraft is a high tech fighter aircraft equipped with state-of-the-art
avionics suite and latest weapons with Night Precision Attack capability. These
aircraft are part of the bid by the PAF to modernise and enhance its air defence
capabilities.
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