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The Dutch government has committed to an aid package valued at over EUR 350 million for Ukraine. The Netherlands will procure ammunition worth more than EUR 150 million specifically for the F-16s that will soon be transferred to Ukraine. This ammunition is being directly purchased from the industry.

A Hellenic Air Force F-16 that took off from Larissa AB crashed near the island of Psathoura at 13:33h today during a routine training flight.

As part of the 25th military aid plan for Ukraine, Belgium is allocating €100 million in aid for the maintenance of F-16 combat aircraft to be delivered to Ukraine.

On Thursday the Venezuelan Air Force reported that one of its F-16 fighters shot down an aircraft declared hostile after it violated national airspace.

This week, three Romanian pilots take off from Rygge air station with newly overhauled F-16 fighters on their way to the aircraft's new home base in Romania.

In a ceremony at Lockheed Martin's Greenville facility, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of the Slovak Republic, Robert Kaliňák, along with esteemed delegates from the United States and Slovakia, commemorated the delivery of Slovakia's first two F-16 Block 70 aircraft.

The F-16 coalition will provide Ukraine with a significant number of F-16s, which will be equipped with the latest weapons. And this is one of the reasons why we are very pleased to join the F-16 coalition, where we will be providing Norwegian F-16s, which are updated and in good shape," he said. "There will be a significant number. When you ask how many will be from Norway (F-16s – ed.), I cannot tell you the exact number, because there are also aircraft that have been updated, in better fighting shape and some fuselages that can be used for repair, among other things. I will be careful here. I won't tell you the exact number," he said.

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Lockheed Martin marked a significant milestone with the departure of the first ferry cell of three F-16 Block 70 jets from Greenville, South Carolina, to Bahrain.