比利时将采购40架战斗机替换将退役的F16

消息来自F16.net,比利时现有54架F16，大概是上世纪80年代采购的，新战机从五个机型选择：
闪电2，超级大黄蜂，鹰狮E,双风，预计在2023年交付比利时空军
The debate about whether Belgium should replace it's current fleet of 54 F-16s after they reach their retirement between 2023 and 2031 has been going on since 1999. Since than all governments contained social-democrats and even members of the green parties, who all reject the idea as being too expensive and not necessary. Early in 2014 the Belgian Secretary of Defense (Pieter De Crem) already said that if Belgium wanted to stay a reliable and trustworthy NATO partner, it would have to replace the venerable F-16 at its time. This obviously invoced a large protest by leftist parties at the time. In June of 2014 the Belgian DOD quitly - although reported by in the media - started with preliminary talks with 5 governments and manufacturers about this replacement project. Unbound by politics, they decided this needed to be done in order for the politicians to make a decision when the time arrives.
The RFI was sent to these five parties:
The Joint Program Office (JPO) in charge of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II program
the Navy Integrated Program Office (NIPO) for the Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet
the Directorate General of Armaments (DGA) of the French Ministry of Defence for the Dassault Rafale
the Swedish Defence and Security Export Agency (FXM) for the Saab JAS-39 Gripen and
the UK Ministry of Defence for the Eurofighter Typhoon.

Planning stands that these talks will take the entire latter part of 2014 and a large part of 2015 with the Belgian DoD planning to make the internal assessment of all proposals in 2016 and request for a formal LOI that would make a government decision possible in 2018. This way the new aircraft would find its way to the Belgian Air Force starting in 2023。
消息源：http://www.f-16.net/f-16-news-article4882.html消息来自F16.net,比利时现有54架F16，大概是上世纪80年代采购的，新战机从五个机型选择：
闪电2，超级大黄蜂，鹰狮E,双风，预计在2023年交付比利时空军
The debate about whether Belgium should replace it's current fleet of 54 F-16s after they reach their retirement between 2023 and 2031 has been going on since 1999. Since than all governments contained social-democrats and even members of the green parties, who all reject the idea as being too expensive and not necessary. Early in 2014 the Belgian Secretary of Defense (Pieter De Crem) already said that if Belgium wanted to stay a reliable and trustworthy NATO partner, it would have to replace the venerable F-16 at its time. This obviously invoced a large protest by leftist parties at the time. In June of 2014 the Belgian DOD quitly - although reported by in the media - started with preliminary talks with 5 governments and manufacturers about this replacement project. Unbound by politics, they decided this needed to be done in order for the politicians to make a decision when the time arrives.
The RFI was sent to these five parties:
The Joint Program Office (JPO) in charge of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II program
the Navy Integrated Program Office (NIPO) for the Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet
the Directorate General of Armaments (DGA) of the French Ministry of Defence for the Dassault Rafale
the Swedish Defence and Security Export Agency (FXM) for the Saab JAS-39 Gripen and
the UK Ministry of Defence for the Eurofighter Typhoon.

Planning stands that these talks will take the entire latter part of 2014 and a large part of 2015 with the Belgian DoD planning to make the internal assessment of all proposals in 2016 and request for a formal LOI that would make a government decision possible in 2018. This way the new aircraft would find its way to the Belgian Air Force starting in 2023。
消息源：http://www.f-16.net/f-16-news-article4882.html