Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 21 days ago

Airbus to pitch Eurofighter Typhoon as replacement for Portuguese F-16 fleet

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Airbus to pitch Eurofighter Typhoon as replacement for Portuguese F-16 fleet

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Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 21 days ago

Airbus to pitch Eurofighter as replacement for Portugal’s F-16 fleet

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Airbus Defence & Space has signed a memorandum of understanding with Portuguese manufacturers to develop a Eurofighter industrial proposition for the country's Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter replacement programme.

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F16s aren’t exactly super expensive either.
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  But they are tied into the US procurement pipeline quite fundamentally
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    Sure, but they already have F16s. Also, if there is anything the US loves to sell, it’s military equipment.

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