Norway announced Thursday that it has completed the sale of 32 F-16 fighter jets to Romania, after a green light from the US and Norwegian authorities.
Last November, he announced the sale, which has a value of 388 million euros ($418 million).
“This sale will allow modernization and strengthening of the defense of an allied country neighboring Ukraine,” Norwegian Defense Minister Bjorn Arild Gramm said in a statement.
During a meeting with foreign media at the end of May, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Storr ruled out the possibility of withdrawing from this contract in order to deliver these aircraft to Ukraine to help it confront the Russian invasion.
By obtaining the 32 aircraft and 17 others it bought from Portugal, Romania will modernize its air force after abandoning in May its old “MiG-21 Lancer” aircraft inherited from the Soviet era.
Source/ Euronews