The Turkish air force could acquire a new batch of 30 Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters rather than launch a planned $500 million upgrade to another 48 of its McDonnell Douglas F-4Es, says Murad Bayar, head of Turkey’s defence industries undersecretariat. Ankara has already received 240 F-16s.
Source: Flight International
Boeing’s defence unit incurred losses of $222 million against a pair of fixed-price contracts in the first quarter of this year, but was buoyed by strong order performance during the same period.
The United Arab Emirates’ fourth GlobalEye surveillance aircraft departed Saab’s Linkoping modification site on 18 April.
Leonardo has secured a 10-year contract to deliver continued combat air mission data management services to the UK Royal Air Force (RAF).
