WASHINGTON, June 24 (Sputnik) - The us State Department signed off on a chain of fingers income to the Philippines, the most important being a $2.Forty three sale of 12 F-sixteen fighter jets and associated equipment, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said.
"The Government of the Philippines has asked to shop for ten (10) F-16C Block 70/72 aircraft [and] (2) F-16D Block 70/seventy two plane,” a DSCA press release stated on Thursday.
The F-16 sale additionally includes a prolonged listing of device, together with spare engines, Advanced Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radars, tactical computers, AMRAAM missiles, missile launchers, sniper targeting pods, an digital war suite, extra than two dozen other weapons structures in addition to technical and logistics aid, the discharge stated.
“The proposed sale will enhance the Philippines’ functionality to meet modern-day and future threats by enabling the Philippines to deploy fighter plane with precision munitions in aid of counterterrorism operations in the southern Philippines,” the release added.
DSCA additionally announced extra State Department-authorized income in separate press releases:12 Harpoon Block II air-released Harpoon missiles with related device for $120 million and 24 Sidewinder Block II tactical missiles with related equipment for $42.Four million.
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