Production of fighter jets for Bulgaria has begun, Lockheed Martin – Bulgaria announced
The production of those ordered from Bulgaria at the end of last year 8 F-16 Block 70 fighters have started. This was understood from the words of Jonathan Lin, who is responsible for strategic partnerships with Central and Eastern Europe of the production company in front of “new television”.
“The Bulgarian fighter is already on our production line, the main assembly is currently underway. We still don’t have the eight fighters that were ordered in the first batch, so far only the first one is on the line. year,” Lynn announced.
Additionally, you deliver will according to the contract.
He assured that the mod has many improvements that bring the quality of the user to generation 4+.
“The new radar system is all electronically scanned, which is similar to the F-35’s radar system — so we took some lessons and technology that we took from the fifth-generation fighters and brought them over to Thursday,” Lin said, saying that that’s a 4+. It is exciting that Bulgaria will have this technology in its fighters, he believes.
He announced that several Bulgarian pilots are being trained in the USA. “They’re getting practice in fighter jets, they’re training in Arizona right now. I can say that we are working on it so that you will have them around 2025. The second batch may get in 2027,” Lin said. And additionally, the company aims to produce 148 users.