All Stories: F-16

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan itself will have to pay for the eight F-16 fighter jets which are being brought from the United States after the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee stopped Washington from paying its half of the deal, ARY News reported.

OSLO: Quick-thinking medical staff in Norway saved a patient's life by calling in an F-16 fighter jet to whisk live-saving medical equipment from one hospital to another, media reports said Friday.

WASHINGTON: The U.S. Senate on Thursday blocked an effort to prevent the $700 million sale of Lockheed Martin Corp F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, although a key lawmaker said he would not allow the use of U.S. funds to finance it.

WASHINGTON: The United States plan to sell F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan seems to have stirred a veritable hornet’s nest among some quarters in the Washington. In a latest opposition, U.S. Republican Senator Rand Paul says he has introduced a resolution to halt arms sale to Pakistan.

The U.S. government has approved the probable sale to Iraq of smart bombs, AIM-9M Sidewinder missiles and other munitions for use on its fleet of 36 F-16 fighter jets in a deal valued at up to $1.95 billion, the U.S. Defense Department announced on Wednesday.