04.01.2004, 02:05
also zum Thema Iran und F-16 habe ich eben folgendes gefunden
Zitat:The first foreign customer beyond the four original European NATO originators of the F-16 program was Iran. As a part of the Shah's plan to modernize the Imperial Iranian Air Force, Iran signed a letter of intent on October 27, 1976 for 160 F-16 aircraft, with the possibility of a follow-on order for 140 more. However, the Iranian revolution of 1979 which resulted in the overthrow of the Shah and the rise of the Islamic fundamentalist regime which currently rules the country caused the order to be cancelled.Quelle: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/baugher_us/f016.html#RTFToC36">http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/b ... l#RTFToC36</a><!-- m -->
Unfortunately, one immediate effect of the cancellation of the Iranian order was that the individual unit cost of the F-16 was driven sharply upward. However, many of the F-16s intended for Iran were eventually sold to Israel.