Bahrain Plans to Buy Nearly $4 Billion Worth of F-16V Vipers – By Oriana Pawlyk (military.com) / Sept 11 2017
The U.S. government has agreed to a potential sale worth nearly $4 billion of Lockheed Martin Corp.’s latest F-16V fighter jet variant to Bahrain, the State Department announced.
Bahrain requested 19 F-16Vs — the latest and most advanced version of the venerable fourth-generation fighter known as the Fighting Falcon — at an estimated $2.8 billion, and to upgrade 20 of its existing Block 40 variants to the F-16V configuration at an estimated $1 billion, according to separate releases Friday from the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency.
The Bahrain government also wants to buy TOW anti-tank missiles and fast patrol boats, according to additional press releases.
The foreign military sale for the newly manufactured Vipers also encompasses enhanced support and technical equipment, including APG-83 Active Electronically Scanned Array, or AESA, radars; M61 Vulcan 20mm gun systems; F-110-GE-129 engines; modular mission computers; and various global navigation systems, encrypted software, wing missile launchers, radio and advanced GPS equipment.
https://www.dodbuzz.com/2017/09/11/bahrain-plans-buy-nearly-4-billion-worth-f-16v-vipers/
PB/TK – Well at least we know Bahrain is committed to fighting terrorism unlike Qatar, that questionable $3.8 billion deal just got approved
