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Thursday, June 05, 2014

Iraq F-16s: First Of 36 To Be Delivered This Week

F-16 Fighting FalconThis week, Reuters reports, Lockheed Martin Corp will deliver the first of 36 F-16 fighter jets to Iraq, giving Iraq the capability of defending its “3,600 km of borders” according to Iraqi Ambassador Lukman Faily, who spoke with Reuters through a telephone interview.

Faily will travel to Lockheed’s Fort Worth, Texas plant for a Thursday ceremony at which Lockheed and the U.S. government will formally deliver the first F-16 fighter jet to Iraq.

A group of three or four new jets will be ferried to Iraq by the end of the year.

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