Turkey To Upgrade Pakistani F-16s
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By Robert Wall
Lockheed Martin’s F-16 industrial partner in Turkey, Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), will upgrade 42 F-16s for the Pakistani air force.
The company says it secured a $75 million program to undertake the upgrade. The culmination of formal talks that began in 2006, the deal will run 46 months, with work to start in October 2010.
TAI notes this is not the first foreign F-16 upgrade program it has undertaken. It already completed a modernization activity for Jordanian F-16s. It won the contract in 2006 and completed the work in April. Fokker and Belgium’s SABCA also bid for the work.
Pakistan already has upgraded four of its Block 15 F-16s to the Block 50s standard.
TAI gained its expertise while working on the Peace Onyx program to provide and upgrade Turkish air force F-16s.
Photo: Pakistani Air Force
