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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Netherlands makes final trim to F-16 fleet size

[F-35 AN-1 Roll Out]The Netherlands is to reduce its operational fleet of Lockheed Martin F-16s from 87 to 68 aircraft and defer a decision on buying the company's replacement F-35 until after elections planned to be held in 2015.

Three options are being considered for the surplus F-16s. These range from selling 18 and dismantling the other for spare parts, to selling 15 and retaining four for use as spares and training assets, or using all 19 airframes in this way.

With the Royal Netherlands Air Force having already reduced its number of active F-16 pilots to 68, annual savings of €41 million ($53 million) should be made from 2014.

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