Croatia to buy used F-16 in Israel

The Croatian Defense Ministry will purchase the squadron F-16 "Barak" from the presence of the Israeli Air Force, reports RIA News.

The decision on this was announced after a meeting of the National Defense Council of the republic.

The competition for the supply of fighters was announced by the Croatian side last year. Proposals have been submitted by Greece, Israel and the United States.

The deal will cost the state budget 420 million euros. “For this money, the country will get 12 second-hand, but upgraded F-16 with weapons, two flight simulators, combat pilots and aircraft will be trained,” Croatian media reported.

Israel’s main competitor was Saab (Sweden) with the Gripen JAS-39 fighter jets, which "were offered without arms and state guarantees for 900 million euros."

The Defense Council accepted the opinion and recommendations of the expert group of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Croatia that the most advantageous proposal for multi-purpose combat aircraft was made by the State of Israel,

reported the President of the Republic Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovich.

It is expected that the purchased aircraft will serve in the Croatian army for about 30 years. The start of the supply is the summer of 2020. F-16 will replace the outdated MiG-21.

Comments

[ul_vitalii]

With a blink of an eye in maintenance, let's see how with these Like a Mercier, after the Lada.

[Spike Javelin Touvich]

If the deal happens, it will be good for Croatia. Sufa is better than Greek and American models

[Aaron Zawi]

Quote: Spikes Javelin Touvich

If the deal happens, it will be good for Croatia. Sufa is better than Greek and American models

This is not the F-16I Sufa. This is a Barak-type F-16A / B upgrade. The Croatian Air Force will receive the F-16A and F-16B aircraft upgraded using the Avionics Capabilities Enhancement (ACE) system developed by the Israeli Aviation Industry in 2001.

[Hanokem]

Aron, let me fix it. f-16 version A / B in our Air Force called NEC (eagle). f-16 versions of C / D are called BARAK. And the F-16 I is called SUFA. Accordingly, the Croats will receive Netz.

[evil partisan]

And these F-16 on Saturdays just will not refuse to fly?

[ul_vitalii]

Well, that reminded , here on the forum, interested parties appear, I think they will pass on and, if anything, remove the restrictions.

[taiga2018]

Quote: Angry Guerrilla

And these F-16 on Saturdays just will not refuse to fly?

that's okay, the main thing is that they "out of habit" did not go to bomb Palestinians ...

[Professor]

Quote: wicked partisan

And these F-16 on Saturdays just will not refuse to fly?

Do not believe it, but our aviation flies on Saturdays. Gap pattern?

[voyaka uh]

Plus, the Israeli F-16s have the most advanced avionics, and that's it.
technical service was at a good level.
Minus - worn out fuselages. They flew with us a lot and usually with a lot
bomb cargo.

[Dym71]

Quote: voyaka uh

at the israeli

Well, you give a pancake!

[kirgiz58]

Quote: Dym71

Well, you give a pancake!

But you don’t know that it’s hard for some nations to give “Rrrr” and “Zzzz”. And there is a rule "as it is heard, it is written."

[voyaka uh]

In English "with" ISRAEL. I speak / write in Hebrew, then in Russian,
then in English. I confuse godlessly.

[kirgiz58]

Quote: voyaka uh

Minus - worn out fuselages. They flew with us a lot and usually with a large bomb load.

That is color. sold at the price of an airplane? I recognize noble businessmen. Next we are waiting for the sale of new wings, fuselages?

[voyaka uh]

I'm sure they were told about the degree of deterioration of each
the plane they purchased. And when you need to make replacements. There are no secrets.
And so, you’re right, Israel can do overhauls of F-16 and F-15, including a complete engine overhaul. We are repairing European F-16s

[kirgiz58]

There were jokes before. But here that the contract will begin to be executed in 2020 is serious. Either they will perform tasks until the 35s fly, or if they don’t quite fly, then they leave for force majeure.

[voyaka uh]

By the end of next year we will have somewhere around 20-25 F-35
in a state of combat readiness (now 9 pieces)
You can write off / sell 20 F-16.

[Hanokem]

We stock up on popcorn and wait for a decision on the next squadron. In June, the government must decide: either another F-35 squadron or F-15 Silent Eagle squadron with low EPR. It seems that the Air Force wants the F-15 because of the greater mass of the payload. F-35 are indispensable for the destruction of air defense, and with the destroyed air defense from the F-15 bomb carrier, there is more benefit.

[taiga2018]

Quote: voyaka uh

Minus - worn out fuselages. They flew with us a lot and usually with a lot
bomb cargo

taking into account the fact that they are unlikely to fly a lot with the Croats, and even more so with a bomb load, they will serve not even 30 years, but all 50 ...

[Paranoid50]

Quote: taiga2018

they will last even 30 years, and all 50 ...

Well, yes, given that the Croats in the second decade of the 21st century use the 21st MiGs ... Lean, however.

[Hurricane70]

Quote: wicked partisan

And these F-16 on Saturdays just will not refuse to fly?

Passed !!!

[Hurricane70]

Quote: voyaka uh

Plus, the Israeli F-16s have the most advanced avionics, and that's it.
technical service was at a good level.
Minus - worn out fuselages. They flew with us a lot and usually with a lot
bomb cargo.

Israeli? Although ... you know better ...

[lance]

here Israel is probably right

[Oleg7700]

Nathanyahu doesn’t deceive, personally signing the "protocol of intentions", they took the same Israeli. The power set, like the engines, is monitored and updated, if necessary, during pre-sale preparation and service, under warranty, they will be the same. And new avionics, with a “pure memory”, and then in the old and Iraqi reactor, and in Lebanon / Syria a “peaceful tractor”, and much more.

[Graz]

big doubts that the Croats will find 400 million euros, if not on credit, for sure the service may cost the next ten years more than what they paid for them

rather, it’s just PR of the Croats to quickly forget about the Ukrainian shame, then most likely they will surrender

[Oleg7700]

Xinhua News Agency writes about ten annual payments. Maybe she knows ...

[kukriniks]

The main thing is to steam in time, until the sand has crumbled.

[Sands Careers General]

Croatia to buy used F-16 in Israel

So buy a kosher plane, do not look that it is scratched and takes off every time, they still will serve how much, I swear to my mother)))
And then some Zimbabwe can push this scrap)) The circulation of aircraft in nature.

[Dormidont]

So they need

[sib.ataman]

By the way, we have used bicycles in the backyard! Although used, but in fair condition! Yes, the paint peeling in places, but it looks almost like new!

[A. Privalov]

It only remains to add that, among other things, Israel takes on himself training pilots and aircraft technicians, which is important. Together with the Croatian aircraft, a batch of weapons developed by Israel, including Python 5 air-to-air missiles, can be supplied.

[faterdom]

Croatia for the Serbs, it's like Ukrainians western for the Russian world. Both renegades who fell under Catholicism and on this basis declared themselves some non-Serbs, others non-Russians.
Only now MiGi-21 some brothers to other brothers so repaired that they immediately realized: not brothers! It’s Israel for the money - even if it’s not cheating, it’s not strange, but such a parallelogram of history has developed. Or maybe take it higher - parallelepipeds!

[Oleg7700]

According to Vicki, they have their own statehood since the 7th century, not related to Serbia, then about 1000-1400gg. union with Catholic Hungary, then the Habsburgs were invited to the throne, so as not to disappear under the Turks, like the Serbs. Naturally Catholics ...

[faterdom]

So the Principality of Galicia, too, so as not to fall under some, climbed on others. And also because a long time. Even participated in the Catholic Crusades. And also they wish all Habsburg Hitlers of all sorts and other canoes on their necks. To, then, ordnung.

[Whisper]

it would be better if everyone lived in the world ....

[Angina]

The airframe resource cannot be extended indefinitely. Not for 5 years they were bought.

[lance]

if Israel guarantees 30, then 15 years just fly off ..... on earth.

[Angina]

On the other hand, why am I for the resource of the NATO glider

[omit]

Arab press: two Israeli F-35s reconnoitered in the sky over Iran

Two F-35 Adir Israeli stealth aircraft bought from the United States last year recently flew in the sky over Iran. This was reported today by the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida.

Informed sources told the newspaper that Israeli planes flew over Syria and Iraq and then at high altitude entered the airspace over Iran to collect intelligence information about various objects in the center and in the south of the Islamic Republic - in the areas of Isfahan, Shiraz and Bandar - Abbas. In particular, Al-Jarida writes, Israelis were interested in nuclear facilities on the Persian Gulf.

The source claims that the Israeli F-35s successfully overcame all of Iran’s air defense systems, including the latest missile defense systems sold to the Ayatollah regime by Russia. It remains unknown whether the operation in the Iranian sky was coordinated with the United States.

In early September, the same Kuwaiti newspaper reported that Israel first tested the F-35 over enemy territory. She wrote that "Israeli pilots made various maneuvers in Syrian and Lebanese airspace - crossed these countries up and down at various heights, simulated combat situations, but were not detected by the Russian S-300 and S-400 air defense systems."

The newspaper even writes that several of Israel’s F-35s attacked Syrian territory during an incident with an Iranian drone.

[Oleg7700]

http://www.aljarida.com/articles/1522266292204212
000 / This Kuwaiti newspaper is rumored to have been financially supporting its informants from US bases in Kuwait with strategic surveillance tools. Comments in the Arab media express confidence in the coordination (during the March exercise Juniper Cobra) and the use of an American tanker taking off from Turkey, Qatar, or the UAE