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BRUSSELS - January 21, 2009: Officials from Jordan and Belgium are in the midst of finalizing a deal which will result in the sale of nine Belgian F-16s to Jordan.
BRUSSELS - January 21, 2009: Officials from Jordan and Belgium are in the midst of finalizing a deal which will result in the sale of nine Belgian F-16s to Jordan. The aircraft are considered redundant by the Belgian Defense Ministry, which under the country's 2000-2015 modernization of the Belgian Defense Forces plans on only retaining 60 F-16s.
The modernization plan continues the process of shrinking the Belgian fleet from its outsized Cold War-era inventory; Belgium purchased 160 F-16s in 1979 with the Soviet Union in mind. Belgian Defense Minister Peter De Crem expects the sale to fall in the area of EUR7 million ($9.28 million). Meanwhile, Jordan continues to build up its F-16 stockpile through the acquisition of surplus Belgian aircraft.
In August 2007 it purchased 14 surplus Belgian F-16s, all of which underwent Mid-Life Updates (MLUs) in Belgium before being delivered to the Jordanian Air Force in the first half of 2008.
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