Romania receives another pair of ex-Portuguese F-16s
The Romanian Air Force now operates 16 second-hand F-16s, with one more to come
Two more ex-Portuguese Air Force F-16 multirole fighter aircraft were delivered to Romania on 30 October, with one more to follow in Q1 2021.
The latest deliveries are the third and fourth aircraft in a batch of five, ordered in 2019 to augment the Romanian Air Force inventory of 12 F-16 Block 15 MLU fighters (nine F-16AM and three F-16BM). These were also procured from Portugal in 2013 in a €628 million ($701 million) deal.
The 2019 contract also included logistical services, technical engineering and support to modernise all 17 aircraft to the M6XR standard, the Romanian MoD noted, adding that ‘complementary goods and services’ were procured from the US via the FMS programme.
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