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Friday, October 05, 2007

Half of Dutch F-16s to have Mode 5 Iff Recognition System

Defence State Secretary Cees van der Knaap plans to equip 36 F-16 fighter aircraft with Mode 5 IFF.

It is too expensive to install the identification system in all F-16s that the Netherlands has available for NATO missions, he said in a letter to parliament.

The Netherlands has 72 F-16s available for NATO missions. It is operationally desirable to equip all of these with the new Mode 5 IFF system that NATO wants to introduce in 2012, according to the state secretary.

But it is not cost-effective, because part of the F-16 fleet is expected to be replaced in 2015. This is why he only wants to equip half the fleet with the system.

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