More F-35s Are Headed to This NATO Member
The Royal Netherlands Air Force soon will buy another eight or nine F-35 stealth fighters, defense minister Ank Bijleveld said in a July 2019 interview. The additional F-35s will help the Dutch air force to reequip an additional front-line fighter squadron. The decision partially restores deep cuts to the Dutch fighter fleet that began at the end of the Cold War and continued through the 2008 global financial crisis. Today the RNLAF operates around 60 F-16s in three front-line squadrons and one training unit. At its peak in the late 1980s, ...
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