Originally Posted by
pr00ne
There were additional buys of both ADV and IDS variants for the RAF over and above the original 385. Some may well have fallen foul of the reductions following the collapse of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact, but the orders were certainly placed, more than one of each variant.
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Some of those were to replace aircraft diverted to the Saudi contract.
Some sources indicate there were an small number of extra F3s on top of the original 165