New Zealand to get F-16s once slated for Pakistan

New Zealand has decided to buy 28 F-16A/B Block 15 aircraft at an estimated cost of $397 million, the Pentagon announced yesterday. The jets, originally built by Lockheed Martin for Pakistan, have been sitting in "flyable storage" at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., since 1991 when the first plane was...

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