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Old 14th Aug 2018, 23:36
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Originally Posted by Lonewolf_50
Rhino, I have a vague memory from back in the 80's (even early 90's?) when some old USN frigates and some F-16's were held up (original destination Pakistan) due to a similar political mess.
And then eventually the hold on the transfer/sale was rescinded
Pakistan never got those original F-16A/Bs, they went to straight to AMARG and sat there for years before eventually being issued to the USN/MARINES as adversary aircraft with NSAWC.
They did eventually get new F-16s though.

Originally Posted by Lonewolf_50
Note the "90 day review" thing ...
Yeah, I did actually mention that, if you re-read my original post...

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