Drawing
of IIAF F-16A over Yazd
IIAF
purchases 160 F-16A on October 27th 1976 with follow
up order of additional 140,
A total of 300
aircraft. Parts and maintenance equipment has arrived in Iran
as early as 1978 and ground personnel had been given training,
(Ground support equipment was later sold to Pakistan). However,
new Government cancelled the order in 1979 before the schedule
arrival of the first two F-16, later this cancellation effected
the unit cost of each aircraft to a much higher price tag.
But General Dynamics found a new buyer for Iranian
F-16's, which was Israel's air force.
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