US blocked F-16 deal between Israel and Croatia

The Israeli Defense Ministry officially notified colleagues from Croatia about the impossibility to fulfill the agreement on the supply of F-16 fighters because of the US position, reports RIA News.

In March last year, the Croatian Defense Ministry announced that Israel had won a tender for the sale of the used, but modernized F-16 “Barak” fighter jets to the country, offering the best conditions.

The deal would have cost the Croatian budget $ 500 million. It was assumed that for this money Croatia would receive 12 aircraft, two flight simulators and pilot training services.

However, the United States blocked deliveries, already called Croatian journalists "deal of the century."

Unfortunately, the United States did not give the appropriate permission to supply Israeli aircraft F-16 "Barak" to the Republic of Croatia,

said the head of the Croatian Defense Ministry Damir Krstichevich after a meeting with the Director General of the Israeli Defense Ministry Udi Adam. Negotiations took place on Thursday in Zagreb.

Recall the tender for the supply of fighter aircraft was announced in 2017 year. In addition to Israel, it was attended by Greece, Sweden and the United States. That is, Israel and the United States were direct competitors. The Israelis won, but could not reach agreement on the supply of aircraft from the country of origin.

It is reported that Israel promised to deliver fighters with a modernized avionics system to Croatia. However, the United States demanded "clean" fighters from improvements. Used F-16 should have replaced the outdated Soviet-made MiG-21.

Comments

[Andrey Chistyakov]

As in the song ... "About Friends-Comrades" ...

[Russia]

The most interesting thing is that in this situation the Americans paused, waited until everyone kissed, they sat in the cockpit of the aircraft.

[bouncyhunter]

R'RёS,R ° F "RёR№ Another example of "fair competition" from mattresses, nothing new ...

[Russia]

Greetings Paul Just pins their attitude to their upreaders. Could immediately cool hot heads.

[bouncyhunter]

Quote: Rusland

Could immediately cool hot heads.

But it's boring. It is much more fun and insidious in the final stage to give a wet fish in the face.

[Same lech]

Sadists still enjoyed it ... bent the natives.

[IL-18]

Quote: The same LYOKHA

enjoyed it ... bent down

This is because Kolinda (a very beautiful woman) went to Moscow at the World Cup in football without approval.

[Megatron]

Let the retired Barack send them .... for 500 million!

[svp67]

Quote: Andrey Chistyakov

As in the song ... "About friends and comrades" ..

As in life: "business and nothing personal"

[Same lech]

Contacting the United States will receive a gift ... it has become too noticeable that those who are in any way connected with the United States in trade in politics, any agreements or are in the dollar system are completely and completely dependent on the United States.
This is fraught with a loss of independence for the third world countries at first economic and then political ... too clearly it climbs out.

[Aaron Zawi]

Quote: The same Lech

Contacting the United States will receive a gift ... it has become too noticeable that those who are in any way connected with the United States in trade in politics, any agreements or are in the dollar system are completely and completely dependent on the United States.
This is fraught with a loss of independence for the third world countries at first economic and then political ... too clearly it climbs out.

Unpleasant, but the United States is in its own right. I think that the Russian Federation also does not like it when someone beats off its arms markets. It is enough to look at the pressure of the Russian Defense Ministry on India's revision of the contract for the purchase of military air defense systems. Including the threat is used to block the sale, t / c in South Korean systems used Russian intellectual property.

[Altona]

Quote: Aron Zaavi

Unpleasant, but the United States is in its own right. I think that the Russian Federation also does not like it when someone beats off its arms markets. It is enough to look at the pressure of the Russian Defense Ministry on India's revision of the contract for the purchase of military air defense systems. Including the threat is used to block the sale, t / c in South Korean systems used Russian intellectual property.

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You are confusing, dear, relatively fair competition and overt forceful pressure based on "intellectual property rights" or something similar. Now any cartridge, issued in the United States, apparently still mentally "belongs" to them, and you are given a kind of use for money. So the nonsense about the "invisible hand of the market" has again self-covered. There is no "invisible" hand, but there is quite a shaggy paw that bends at the last moment any participant in the "market".

[Same lech]

South Korean systems use Russian intellectual property.

Oh how ... I didn’t know about it ... what did the Koreans need from us.

[Krasnodar]

So, the sale of Russian Super Jets to Iran was also banned by Amers due to 10% of the Yues components. In this case, the entire glider with an American motor

[Vlad 63]

And which one is the greater Jew?

[Mountain shooter]

Nothing personal ... But "grandmothers" - here ...

[bessmertniy]

The Israeli military business had to hurry up and rename these F-16s and Barakas to Trump. Maybe it would work.

[irazum]

American weapons, as a result, do not spread around the world like cockroaches, unlike the Soviet ...

[Same lech]

American weapons, as a result, do not spread around the world like cockroaches, unlike the Soviet ...

Ничего подобного.
US small arms walk around the world ... after 2008, something from the US military depots appeared in our warehouses ... migrated through the Georgians.

[Lieutenant Senior]

American weapons, as a result, do not spread around the world like cockroaches

Yes, you say, then why do our people drive around Lugansk in a Humvee, and at the Donetsk airport they found a bunch of American small arms after the elimination of "cyborgs"?
Where does the good come from?

[irazum]

It's one thing when you use a weapon captured "in battle". This is a trophy. And it is quite another matter when you supply weapons to one country, and they then ship (sell) them to the devil wherever they go, without asking or even informing the supplier. There are a lot of such examples.

[Gerklim]

Surprise to Israel from its best friends and partners. And the main ally.

[rotmistr60]

Israel and the US are direct competitors

It turns out that the chest just opens. Friendship is friendship, and tobacco (money) apart. Perhaps that is why the Americans decided to sweeten a little by going to buy the "Iron Dome" from Israel?

[stalki]

Fsham do not need strong third world countries.

[Krasnodar]

Is Israel a Third World Country?

[stalki]

Am I talking about Israel?

[Krasnodar]

If you are talking about Croatia, then the F-16 will not bring it to the forefront

[stalki]

And it’s enough that technology can creep.

[Krasnodar]

Israeli - of course, only in order to put them into production, we need the scientific and industrial base of the Russian Federation or China. Turkey itself, for example, will not “raise them”.

[Magic archer]

States often do this. They do not care about the opinions of others. Remember how the Jews created Lavi and how it ended. But it is Israel that is the main ally for mattresses in the Middle East! But the states treat it as a vassal and not as an equal.

[mkop]

Is there any other country on the planet that the USA would have a different attitude to? Well, at least one ... As long as they sit and do not blather - then everything is fine, as soon as they dare to say something against it - everything, put out the light.

[afrikanez]

One thing is not clear, the planes are the property of Israel. What does the country of manufacture, with its right to ban ????

[Same lech]

The seller sells you a spoon to the plate, for example to you or me, and in the contract of sale says that you can’t give the spoon or part of the spoon to sell to the neighbor without the consent of the dealer ... here, in general, the one who agrees to such a deal is to blame.

[Dym71]

Quote: afrikanez

One thing is not clear, the planes are the property of Israel. What does the country of manufacture, with its right to ban ????

Israel has special conditions in the states at a discount on cost, and they beat on their hands so as not to dump at the price of IMHO.

[ender]

as regards weapons, a ban on transfer (resale) to third countries is common

[Nikolai Petrov]

And sho so? After "repairing" their MiGs by the Sumerians, the Croats decided to buy the F-16 from the kosher ones?
In this case, even with all the disrespect for kosher, they are now more decent "non-brothers".

[rocket757]

Separate the tobacco! After all, nothing new .... business, nothing personal.

[demiurg]

In general, it is somehow strange. Even the Americans themselves will sell block 70 to anyone who comes with a thick wallet.
Israeli cars are also stuffed, but with kosher avionics. Indeed, for any question, the secrecy of equipment is not. Is the situation with Kfir repeated? Is Israel still not allowed to trade fighter jets?
Dear inhabitants of the promised land, your opinion on the event is interesting.

[voyaka uh]

The problem, as I understand it, is not the planes themselves, but some devices and systems
Israeli-made 4 ++ aircraft installed on them.
On these systems, joint Israeli-American and American patents.
Which are installed on American fighters, too. Americans are afraid of the leak of secrets.
If Israel dismantled such systems, then the Americans would not mind selling.
But such "castrated" F-16s would not interest Croatia.
The overlay happened in the form of Israel: such things are checked in advance.
The deputy minister of defense went to Croatia to apologize. You may have to pay a penalty ..

[Wolf]

Vojaka most importantly here is that Israel wanted to sell a 4+ or 4 ++ generation aircraft to Croatia. Today Croatia is the heir to Nazi Croatia 1941-1945! There the Nazis beat Ustasha. They killed well and there are a lot of lograh not only for Serbs but also for Jews! You may have learned this from Moshe Dayan. Eta novo Ustašia uz helped NATO in the 90s drove somewhere about 490.000 Serbs from Croatia. And today, in 2019, did you want to sell the plane to Croatia, when the Serbs have nothing approximate? This maxim is nothing personal, because business is decently disgusting. Plunuli vi not only on Serbia but also on Yevreya kill in WWII. What will they tell you?
This is good!

[nathanael]

It’s not a bad thing among the Croats .. That Ukrainians threw to repair the twinks .. Now the Americans .. Karma chtol they have such ..

[Fantazer911]

Famous American proverb, Business and not that personal!
No koment!

[Professor]

Quote: Fantazer911

Famous American proverb, Business and not that personal!

It is a business. Resale of American weapons is carried out only with their permission. They did not give permission. We will have to fly on F-16 ourselves or look for other buyers. Another thing is with Soviet technology in Israel. They sold it to anyone they wanted without asking the consent of the USSR.

Quote: Fantazer911

No koment!

Correctly write like this: No Comment.

[Dym71]

Quote: professor

Another thing is with Soviet technology in Israel. They sold it to anyone they wanted without asking the consent of the USSR.

Yes, you spit on everyone, the acre of the United States, and if it is very hardy, then put them on the device.

[Professor]

Quote: Dym71

Yes, you spit on everyone, the acre of the United States, and if it is very hardy, then put them on the device.

Israel has never violated a single commitment. Learn.

[Dym71]

Quote: professor

Israel has never violated a single commitment.

Israel is a small bird, but proud!

The crest symbolizes hutspu!

[Krasnodar]

Does shaw symbolize beak?

[Professor]

Quote: Dym71

Israel is a small bird, but proud!

The greatness of a country today is not determined by the size of its territory, CEP, but primarily by the way it cares about its citizens.

[Dym71]

That is about the crest Do you agree, Prof?

[Professor]

Quote: Dym71

That is about the crest Do you agree, Prof?

I do not feed the trolls, but only sometimes feed.

[Krasnodar]

Oleg, a man is harmlessly kidding)).

[Dym71]

Krasnodar, yes, he understands everything, he simply did not find what to say right away, so he turned on the toggle switch in the "smart guy" position, and arguing with him about something or proving something, in this state of snobbery ("samadhi"), is useless, it's easier for a dead cat kiss ass. Prof, it was the case that he denied the presence of rabbinical courts in Israel, so his compatriots twisted their fingers at his temples and laid out the addresses of the courts, but where there ...
ps You’ll forgive me for being without you, professore

[Dym71]

Quote: professor

I do not feed the trolls, but only sometimes feed.

Ken, Ken, Ken, and I’m a reader on Wikipedia, and you’re a writer

[Fantazer911]

OK, no comment.

[Wolf]

Most important:
[quote] However, the US demanded to "clean" the fighter from improvements / quote]
Why vapros?